A few months ago I got a fire-brand email that made me murl inside: "How can you call yourself a blogger if you can't even PROOFREAD what you write?"

几个月前，我收到一封挑衅的邮件，邮件内容让我很崩溃：“如果你对自己写出来的东西连校对都做不好的话，那你凭什么自诩是个作家呢？”

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You have got a fire that is going to scorch whoever gets close – and they will want more.

你身上有一团火，能点燃任何一位走近的人人——而且他们会想要更多。

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They hope their talent will get them through, but in these battles you need heart, soul and fire. That is how my Roma got itself out of an embarrassing corner.

我知道这批球员们都有足够的天分，但只靠天分是不够的，为了早日摆脱这个不利的境地他们必须用自己的心、灵魂和激情去迎接每一场战斗。

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"They hear the tone in my voice which is the tone of a sergeant. I say: 'Sir,I can see you got your horse all saddled, you need to put that fire out.' They hear that tone, and that kind of tone that I just said, that gets you killed in Mississippi.

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And if you've tried to put that in a situation where you've got guys under fire, and it's important to get in and out quickly, the potential to have that kind of responsiveness is just unbounded.

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Or if you didn't have an opportunity to speak, but you've got this burning idea that is really going to set the world on fire, I want to make sure that you've got the opportunity to -- (laughter) -- that you've got the opportunity to lay it out right now.

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"You've got to credit them that they didn't have to do a fire sale earlier in the crisis, " said Jonathan Newman, a banking analyst at Brewin Dolphin.

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