The strike cost them thousands of pounds in lost business.

罢工使他们失去了几千英镑的生意。

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She wanted me to strike out on my own, buy a business.

她想让我独立开辟新路，购买一家公司。

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They don't strike me as people who understand the film business, or even the culture business.

他们对我这样了解电影商业甚至文化商业的人来说，没有什么震撼。

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Yet bedbugs strike fear in homeowners and business owners.

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Four thousand staff working at 373 Crown - or main - offices, handling 20% of all Post Office business, will strike on 30 March.

BBC: Post Office workers set to strike over Easter

At a time when the company is struggling to figure out how to reinvigorate its PC business, does it really strike anyone out there that there is a big opportunity for HP to jump into the smartphone business.

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Even worse, whichever company is hit with a strike may lose business permanently to the others still working.

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