Half the job is about saying what you want or need, but the other half is listening, it's as important to listen as it is to speak.

工作的一半是表达你的需求，另一半就是聆听。听与说一样重要。

youdao

Remember you want your visuals to reinforce your message, not detract from what you are saying.

要记住，你是要用视觉资料来强化你的信息，而不是削弱你所讲述的内容。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Learn to tell them what you want them to do instead of saying what you don't want: "Hold my hand tight", not "don't run into the road".

学会告诉他们你想要他们做什么，而不是说你不想要他们做什么：说“抓紧我的手”，而不要说“不要跑到马路上去了”。

youdao

I think we should be suing to get those bonuses back not as the government that gave money to this private entity, but as the owner,saying you know what, you got bonuses that you didn't deserve and we want them back,on the merits."

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

So you don't have to write long papers, but what I'm saying is: the room is there for you to stretch out if you want to do that.

所以我的意思是：,有足够的空间留给你们发挥,如果你们想的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Another way of saying it is, we want to give you the skill so that you can make the computer do what you want it to do.

换一种说法就是，我们想赋予你一种能力,以让你可以用计算机,做你想做的任何事。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And so what my bill is saying, you do what you want to do but you cannot get money through the Department of Interior as long as you're discriminating against the freedmen.

NPR: Cherokee Nation Faces New Battle

Sometimes you are so clear on what job you want that saying no seems fairly straightforward, but in other instances you might have doubts or feel that job might be something you would be more interested in when you are ready to make another career move.

FORBES: Decline a Job Offer -- The Right Way!

And Kevin, specifically because of what you were saying about the creative destruction effect of this recession, you want to take advantage and buy companies that are going to survive this process.

FORBES: Round Table