After a time his muscles grew hard and firm.

过了一段时间，他的肌肉变硬、变结实了。

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That’s why I launched my own firm: to create a team of passionate, hard-working corporate lawyers who love what they do and love helping entrepreneurs.

所以我开创了自己的事务所：创造一支充满激情、勤奋刻苦、爱自己的工作并喜欢帮助企业家的公司律师团队。

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"I think it's hard to make any firm conclusions so far," says Liv Bente Romundstad, a fertility doctor and researcher at Saint Olav's University Hospital in Norway.

“我认为到目前为止下一个肯定的结论是很难的，”一个不孕不育医生、挪威圣奥拉夫大学医院的研究员Live Bente Romundstad说如是。

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As his troops were being blown apart by French artillery at Waterloo, the Duke rode up and told them to stand firm and take the "hard-pounding".

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She was working as hard as any lawyer in her firm and she had children at home.

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Fortunately, recently, professors Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer, and John van Reenen (from Stanford, the University of Munich, and the London School of Economics) conducted an extensive study examining the effect of family-friendly practices on hard variables such as firm sales per employee and return on capital employed, using a large database of firms from the US, the UK, Germany, and France.

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