The lightweight,standard-issue Humvee is vulnerable to enemy fire and the heavier Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected truck,or MRAP, is too top-heavy for steep inclines.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

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"That was reassuring, but it also meant that if you were unidentified you had potential friendly fire not too far away at a moment's notice."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06