Unfortunately, it comes off sounding more like, "This work is stupid."

不幸的是，这听上去更像“这件工作很蠢”，老板不想听到什么样的工作是蠢的。

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The above three approaches are all superior anyways, so there's really no reason to risk coming off sounding like an interrogator.

以上三种方法都非常优秀，所以不必冒险把自己变成审讯员。

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Some of it is mere noise: obscure companies promoting their services and even more obscure bloggers sounding off. The overall impression is at once overwhelming and confusing.

部分信息简直是噪音：不见经传的公司推广其服务，更多的无名博主唧唧喳喳—给人的总体印象就是眼花缭乱，势不可挡。

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You might find yourself drifting off about five tracks in, only to be woken up by Everything's Alright, which starts off sounding like Van Morrison before evolving into a fabulous angst-ridden rant.

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Doctors now and women are really - they have a kind of a knee-jerk response to the big estrogen study that was conducted a couple of years ago, and estrogen comes off sounding like toxic waste - estrogen replacement therapy.

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When they pop up in cable news segments or on radio shows, sounding off about their stories, or just sounding off, they are promoting themselves.

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