"It is a lot easier for firms to make the decision not to lay someone off than it is actually to decide to take someone on,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Then, you make an arrow corresponding to B and lay it on the end of this one.

再画一个表示 B 的箭头,把 B 放在 A 的终点

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Gadamer acknowledges this, even insists on it as I say, but he doesn't lay stress on it because the gap that is implied in the need to be pulled up short is not a big one.

葛达玛承认，甚至坚持这点，正如我所说的，但他并不强调这个,因为“突然停下“所暗含的缺口,并不大。

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He assumed that such a course would lead to progress and the general improvement of the human condition, and it was that sort of thinking that lay at the heart of the scientific revolution and remains the faith on which modern science and technology rest.

他认为这将会引领进步,全面提升人类的生存状况,正是这个学说成为了,科技革命的核心并为现代科学技术,的发展奠定了良好的基础

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