If there is any advice to give on making and keeping friendships with foreigners, I would say that it is this: Treat foreigners as people, not opportunities.

如果要对与外国人建立和保持友谊提点建议的话，我想说的是：把外国人当作人，而不是机会。

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Opportunities such as this did not come every day.

这样的机会不是天天都有的。

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Such opportunities should not be missed [lost, wasted].

这种机会不应错过。

《新英汉大辞典》

But we need to continue to not lose sight of where we need to go to increase opportunities for people to get employed in new jobs."

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It is not about providing opportunities for people to get to know each other and to build friendships.

不是为人们提供机会,互相了解,建立友谊。

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I know also, given your life story, opportunities that you were not obvious to inherit. -Yes.

纵观您的一生，我知道,您并非刻意追求这些成就，-是的。

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These are not opportunities to lobby -- they are briefings on the positions the president has taken and the status of seeing them through.

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Leaders in the big shift will be those who can peer ahead and paint compelling views of opportunities--and not just opportunities for themselves or their institutions but for all kinds of people.

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Because it is unpredictable and the opportunities in science do not match the opportunities in markets.

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