Countries cannot have it both ways: the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries.

各国不能二者兼得：环境更为洁净的代价有可能是污染工业的减少。

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Even little tigers cannot have it both ways.

即使是“四小龙”也无法两全其美。

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You keep screaming at industry when we ourselves, the greedy consumer and our insatiable appetite for cheap junk have driven them overseas or out of business. You cannot have it both ways.

你们一直责备商业不景气，而我们自己，作为贪婪的顾客，对廉价商品无休止的追求促使了我国的商品要远销到国外去，最后没有生意可做。

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The Center for Security Policy believes that the Clinton Administration and its counterparts simply cannot have it both ways.

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Clearly, the people of the country cannot have it both ways.

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The left cannot have it both ways, blaming the private sector for subprime lending while absolving the government policies that created the demand for subprime loans.

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