While step 1 is the most important in the grand scheme of things, step 2 often leads to the most difficult discussions with the business.

虽然步骤1是这个大计划中最重要的一步，步骤2常常导致业务方面最困难的讨论。

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But officials in Singapore, for example, a close partner to both America and China, say they had some difficult discussions with America when they decided to support China's initiative.

不过，例如与中美都很亲近的新加坡的官员就说，当他们决定支持中国的提议的时候，在与美国方面的讨论就出现了一些困难。

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While every individual blog has its own RSS and Atom feed, the volume of posts and the number of blogs make it difficult to track what discussions are going on in the Intranet on a macro-scale.

尽管每个单独的blog都有其自己的rss和atom feed，但是大量的帖子和blogs使得它难以在宏观上跟踪内部网上正在讨论什么。

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