If you had prepared in advance, you wouldn't be in such an awkward position.

如果你事先作好准备，也不至于那么被动。

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In the reverse, it would be painful to witness a member of the opposite sex in such an uncomfortable and awkward position.

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The decline in the external value of the Euro will be beneficial to the troubled countries causing it, but it leaves Germany, in particular, in an awkward position.

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