If someone slacks off, Bill comes down hard.

如果有人偷懒，比尔就会严厉训斥。

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Bill ended the letter with some warm words, encouraging Sam to study hard and do well in school.

比尔以一些温暖的话语结束了信，鼓励萨姆努力学习，在学校取得好成绩。

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Bill Clinton found it hard enough in the 1990s, despite his charm and similar background.

二十世纪九十年代，比尔·克林顿带着他的魅力和相似的背景，发现了同样的困难。

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The bill provided 700 billion dollars to buy hard-to-value securities from banks.

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Democrats waged a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and lobbied hard for the bill but still came up 13 votes short of the two-thirds needed to pass.

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If - as expected - the bill is ratified by parliament and by the hard-line Guardian Council, it will make Iran a member of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, which was created in 1999 and came into force in 2002.

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After the Republicans won control of the Congress in 1994, then president Bill Clinton was hard-pressed to advance his domestic agenda.

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