赫德表示离开的决定是“痛苦的”，但又不得不承认调查使得他难以继续留下。

Hurd said the decision to go was a "painful" one but admitted the investigation had made it difficult for him to continue.

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他明确表示要我们离开。

He made it plain that we should leave.

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他没有像往常一样用含糊不清的借口来掩饰自己的离职，而是直截了当地表示，他离开是“为了追求自己经营一家公司的目标”。

Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving "to pursue my goal of running a company".

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