My first smack in the face came when a PR company called me for a business launch and had written a quote for me.

当一家公关公司要我为其作商业发行，并写了一份报价给我时，我得到了一个强硬的回绝。

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My first smack in the face came when a PR company called me for a business launch and had written a quote for me.

当一家公关公司要我为其作商业发行，并写了一份报价给我时，我得到了一个强硬的回绝。

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Parents of very young children know this: You catch your child in the act of stealing the cookie the evidence of candy written on his or her face.

小孩子的父母都知道这一点：当你发现你的孩子正在偷饼干的时候，他或她的脸上写着糖果的痕迹。

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But Japan, which has access to the latest technologies, still relies more on face-to-face communications than on the written mode.

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Labour's Lord Boyd of Duncansby, a barrister and former Lord Advocate for Scotland, said he was "disappointed" by the government's suggestion in a written response to the report that the court does not in fact face an imminent crisis.

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Tymoshenko arguably broke the law in Ukraine, such as the law is written, and so she will face punishment.

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