Telephones are down so he can't get through.

电话出了故障，所以他打不通。

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There's a mess of fish down there, so get your lines in the water.

那底下有很多鱼，快下钩吧。

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Technical advances have cut down on the number of grains you have to study, so you get your results faster.

技术进步已经减少了你需要研究的谷物，你就可以更快地得到结果。

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So,if we get down to brass tacks, we can prevent ripoffs and bogus ways of earning money in that jungle out there.

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And I get down to a certain card and I am stumped, so I will leave a space waiting for that card to appear on cue.

我遇到某张牌,会被困住，我会留些地方给,恰好要出现的牌。

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I get fire insurance on my house and so I behave badly: I deliberately burn the house down to collect on my insurance.

我为我的房子投了火险，于是我就：,我故意烧毁房屋,以便领走保险金。

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And the prevention-focused entrepreneur will get so bogged down worrying about obstacles that his business may never get off the ground at all.

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Most countries employ lawyers as negotiators in these UN processes, and that's partly why they get so bogged down.

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So hunker down and get prepared and listen to the best brains telling it like it is.

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