在快速变化的经济形势下，我们比以往任何时候都更需要职场人士积极主动，发挥他们的想象力，“应对突发事件”。

In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination "to respond to unexpected events".

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他们扮演着老师的角色，在孩子的语言学习中总是发挥着积极的作用。

They're acting as teachers and they always have an active role to play in their child's language learning.

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这样他们就使群众的积极性、智慧和力量都充分发挥出来。

In this way they brought into full play the initiative, wisdom and power of the masses.

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It's a positive force, and it exerts an actual and somehow palpable, discernible force in the world.

它是一种积极的力量，它在世界上发挥一种实际的，某种可感知可识别的作用。

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