I decided that nothing should be done hastily, that things had to be sorted out carefully.

我决定不草率的采取任何行动，先得认真地理清头绪。

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Tom hinted at things he had to attend to; things that must be done; and time was fleeting.

汤姆暗示了他有事情要处理，必须做的事情，而且时间在飞逝。

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But in later work he also showed that organising matters within companies had costs: in particular, it relied on internal authority to get things done, and this could be abused.

不过，在他后期的工作里，他也证明了，在公司内部组织交易事宜是有成本的：特别是，为了做成事，要靠内部权威，但权威有可能被滥用。

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Veterans of war live forever with the memory of war's merciless nature, of the awful things that had to be done by their hand.

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