A few times I've been successful in getting a bully to back off, or have been able to modify what I've been doing so that there is no longer an issue.

有几次，我成功地令一个流氓公司撤退了，也通过对我自己的某些修正，确保了争执不再出现。

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It is not so much that he is, as some have suggested, a flat-track bully, only good to score heavily when the pressure is off; the issue is tactical.

一些人说他没有那么重要，只是一个只会欺负弱小的人，也只擅长在没有压力的时候重重的射门，这争论点只是战略型的。

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Big 10 members have been trying to knock the bully off the block for years with little success.

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Sure, if a victim fights back and flattens his bully, the bully tends to back off.

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These include trying to boost domestic demand with higher wages and lower taxes for the less well-off, to bully the Bundesbank into cutting interest rates, and to set target zones to stabilise currencies.

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