Always ask the caller if it's all right to put her on hold when answering the phone, and don't leave people on hold. Provide callers on hold with progress reports every 30 to 45 seconds.

(若对方要找的人不方便接电话)应询问对方是否可以稍等一下，但不要把对方晾在一旁，应该每30 ~ 45秒向对方报告一次进度。

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Ignore the negative naysayers. - no matter how much progress you make, there will always be the people who insist that walking on water is impossible, simply because it hasn't been done before.

忽略掉消极的说“不”的人——无论你多么努力，这里总有人坚持认为水上行走是不可能的，理由很简单，以前没有人做到过。

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One year later, reconstruction work has achieved little progress, while people, since the earthquake, have always been living in tents without decent life they deserve.

一年过去了，灾后重建工作停滞不前，居民生活穷困潦倒。

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"After Katrina a lot of people felt the recovery could have happened in a matter of months but in reality it was always going to be a five-year work in progress and that's what a lot of people did not understand, " Lee told CNN.

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