If you were fired due to under-performance, use the words "let go" instead.

如果你因表现不佳而被解雇，就用“让它去吧”来代替。

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There is a culture of 'acceptable under-performance' - where 'that's good enough' is the norm, with too little effort made to do things as well as they can be done.

组织中提倡“最糟糕的业绩不能低于什麽标准”的文化，“我们做的够好了”常常是人们做事的标准，但很少有人努力把事情做的更好。

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Up to a certain point, the more stress you are under, the better your performance will be.

在一定程度上，你承受的压力越大，你的表现就越好。

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Ghana's Under-20 national team wrapped up a fantastic three-week performance by edging Brazil on penalty kicks,4-3, to win their first title in their third appearance in the final of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

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Conflict country stock markets tend to continue their relative under-performance during their peak conflict period.

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The first sort resulted in above-average short- and long-term share performance, the second in prolonged under-performance.

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This reversed its previous under-performance in local elections in the capital, as London's memories of loonie Labour fade.

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