Instead of saying something like, "If we set an end-of-quarter deadline, we will never make it," say, "This is just my opinion, but I don't see how we will make that deadline."

与其说“如果我们设定了季度末的最后限期，我们将永远无法完成”这样的话，不如说：“仅代表个人看法，但我不知道我们怎样才能在截止日期前完成。”

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We'll come back to these issues in a minute, but I'd like to say something about the theories of Robin Dunbar—an anthropologist at Oxford University.

我们稍后会回到这些议题上，但我想谈谈罗宾·邓巴的理论——他是牛津大学的人类学家。

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But 'if you have a loan in the bank or an outside investor, something like this is well worth considering,' he says.

不过“如果你在银行有贷款或者有外部投资者，那么这种做法就值得考虑，”他说。

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I like to have something I can rely on, but it is an important issue.

但是这确实是，一个非常重要的事情。

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This weird temporal disjunction is an important part of the poem, and it not only gives the poem its peculiar air of something like a conceptual time-warp, but it's an important part of Milton's profoundly anticipatory imagination.

这个古怪的暂时的脱节是诗歌中很重要的一部分，它不仅带给诗歌一种不寻常的感觉,就像概念性的时光隧道，但他确实是弥尔顿,深奥的预言性想象的重要部分。

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An SIV is a company of a sort that invests in assets and they issue something like asset-backed commercial paper, but it's not a real company because it only exists as an organization sponsored by some bank.

IV类似从事资产投资的公司,同时也发行类似资产担保商业票据的证券,但它不是一家真正的公司,因为它只是由某家银行建立的一个组织

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Out of Charlotte, indeed, the Lord raised up not only a mighty preacher of his Word, but also something like an All-American prelate, a modern version of a Prince of the Church.

ECONOMIST: American evangelism

Hence this is not something like good will, but an attempt to assure the trading partner of a possible help, at the need of hour.

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These artifacts come in the shape of jewelry boxes or picture frames, but sometimes an artist turns out something like the 8-foot-tall Eiffel Tower made in 1915 by German immigrant George Paul Keilberg.

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