在刚担任董事长的头几年，他在提升公司形象方面发挥了作用。

In his first years as chairman he was instrumental in raising the company's wider profile.

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答：既然你获得提升，那你要担任的这个职位应该是已有的。

A: Since you are being promoted, the assumption is that the position you're moving into already exists.

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早年担任美联储理事之时，他比艾伦·格林斯潘更加坚信，中央银行不应该通过提升利率来消除资产泡沫。

As a governor of the Fed earlier this decade, he was even more convinced than Alan Greenspanthat central Banks had no business raising interest rates to head off asset bubbles.

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