激励薪酬往往不能产生效果的最大原因似乎是，管理者并不会坚持这个计划。

The biggest reason incentive pay so often doesn't deliver results, it seems, is that individual managers don't stick with the program.

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对投资者而言，美国在线和时代华纳合并不能产生效果……就如同西西佛斯推石上山一样劳而无功。

To make the merger (AOL and Time Warner) work for investors... will be like pushing a boulder up an Alp.

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研究视觉设计的基本要素，了解这些要素是如何产生效果的，将有助于新手摄影师提高他们的构图能力。但是仅仅遵循这些规则并不能保证他们能成功。

Studying the basic elements of visual design and understanding how they work will help new photographers improve their composition, but simply following rules does not guarantee success.

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It works its magic, again, through purely instrumental means, so we can't really call those songs, and this puzzled me.

纯器乐的演奏方式,容我重申,能产生神奇的效果,所以我们其实不能把器乐称为歌曲,这让我很困惑

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