The Muppets have always been about artistic integrity, not cheap tricks.

布偶们一直都很有艺术的坚持，而不是一些便宜的把戏。

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No longer can you fool people with cookie-cutter advice and cheap tricks; we’ve gotten much smarter.

那么你就不可能再用你千篇一律的建议和俗套的伎俩来糊弄人们了；我们已经变的聪明了。

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They pull the cheap tricks of B-list movies: ominous voiceovers, fade-in text, music and camera angles designed to unsettle the viewer.

他们采用了二流电影的廉价噱头：不祥的画外音、渐入式字幕、令观众不安的音乐和拍摄角度。

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Paterno promoted a "Grand Experiment" of doing it the correct way, of not falling prey to the cheap tricks and classroom shortcuts, and building a winning program of integrity.

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These changes take time but are necessary as this great nation is running out of cheap, short-term tricks.

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After its first four attempts at malls, which were a disaster, Mr Allen now thinks Seiyu has learnt the tricks of the trade, offering super-cheap leases to the crowd-pulling stores so that money-earning small retailers will want to open up too.

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