When Alex was finished, he received polite applause, but hardly the warm response he had hoped for.

亚历克斯讲完后，得到了礼貌的掌声，但这跟他希望得到的热情回应差得远了。

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The performance was greeted with polite applause.

这场演出得到了礼貌性的掌声。

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Other researchers, however, greeted the results with what amounted to polite applause.

但是，另一些研究人员对此结果只是鼓掌欢迎以示礼貌。

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If I see that there is not such support I would not stay one day longer in office (polite applause).

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Activist investor Keith Meister stepped in Thursday to shake up store brands food company Ralcorp ( RAH), and the market reacted with a smattering of polite applause.

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One, Professor Moshe Amirav, an associate of Husseini and former policy adviser to Yitzhak Shamir and Ehud Barak, had earlier made a speech praising his former friend, which the crowd had greeted with polite applause.

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