A customer first suggested it, as a kind of joke.

因为这是一个顾客首次开玩笑般提议的。

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Wear a nice suit and a tie, and you first meet the customer, you should be sure to arrive on time for a meeting, OK?

穿一套漂亮的西装，打一条领带，第一次见客户时，你一定要准时到，好吗？

youdao

At that time I thought she was between surprised and happy, because it might be her first time to meet a customer like me.

当时我认为她是在惊讶和高兴之间，因为这可能是她第一次见到像我这样的顾客。

youdao

"Right now we have a lack of information on this so that first we have a policy to make our customer know - not something like gambling - it's very dangerous for them so that we have to make a seminar for customers first."

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The first phase required them to identify a customer that was not well-served by Merril Lynch, or perhaps a new customer and to profile those customers in terms of their risk and investment profits.

第一个是要求他们找到,未受到美林良好服务的顾客，或者是一个新顾客,并且根据风险和,投资利润对顾客分组。

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