Deal with other people based on their starting positions, and evaluate yourself by your own starting position.

基于他人的起点与人相处，但是基于自己的起点评价自己。

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The short answer is that legislation Congress passed in July failed to reassure financial markets enough to position the two companies to raise needed capital on their own.

简短的回答是，由于七月份通过的国会法案没能让这两家公司从金融市场上筹到急需的资金。

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Many masters who represented their own faction, covetously eyed on this position to show actual strength, including his apprentice Ma San.

很多宗师都想代表自己的门派，虎视眈眈地盯着这个展示实力的位置，包括他的徒弟马三。

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One of the hardest puzzles for mass higher education is how to make those universities that are not part of some such elite, whether formal or informal, concentrate on their students' needs rather than their own position in a pecking order based on research.

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While the latter described a passive electorate, unconcerned with political issues, and guided in its voting decisions primarily by party allegiance, Nie and his co-authors showed that contemporary voters had higher political awareness and were guided by their own position on the issues rather than political parties.

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It would help France to climb down from its own strident position on Iraq if the Americans toned down their own strident anti-French rhetoric.

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