We telephone her parents and the British Embassy to set the ball rolling.

我们给她的父母和英国大使馆通了电话，球开始转起来了。

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H: And as we just landed that new account in California, we have to get the ball rolling on this ASAP.

公司在加州刚找到一个新客户，just landed a new account. 这里的account不是帐户，而是指正式商业伙伴和客户。

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B: Just to comply, we're ready to reduce the price by 5 percent. I hope this concession of ours will get the ball rolling.

好吧，依从你们的意见，我们准备削价5%，希望我们这次让步能打开局面。

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and doing things like that to really begin, get the ball rolling,

真的做了一些事情，真正行动起来，

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