Support from family and friends acts as a buffer against stress.

家庭和朋友的支持有助于减缓压力。

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She often had to act as a buffer between father and son.

她常常不得不在父子之间扮演调解人角色。

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Each ATQ operator also has a buffer associated with it.

每个AT Q操作符也有一个相关联的缓冲区。

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They are the nurseries of the ocean, where many species of fish and shrimp breed and serve as a buffer against coastal erosion in a region where much of the population livesin low-lying areas.

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Now, I assume that someone has looked at this before, but this is roughly consistent with a corporations-hold-cash-as-a-buffer-between-revenues-and-costs model.

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Watney, who was runner-up at the WGC-CA Championship event in March, could have led by even more, but bogeyed his final hole after three-putting to have a two-shot buffer over Germany's Martin Kaymer and Irishman Shane Lowry.

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Basel III additional capital buffers are: a mandatory capital conservation buffer of 2.5% and a discretionary counter-cyclical buffer.

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