To be more assertive, you focus on what you say and how you say it.

要更有主张，你要把注意力放在要说什么，怎么说上面。

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You can plan and practice how to be more assertive using the assertiveness ladder.

通过采用主张阶梯，你可以计划和练习如何更有主张。

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Maybe if I learned to be more assertive and use more ‘I’ statements we’d have less problems.

也许如果我学会更果断，并且更多表态，那么我们的问题可能会少一点。

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Step out of your comfort zone to be more assertive and visible if you tend to stay in the background.

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Skipper Chanderpaul, meanwhile, has been urged to be more assertive by one of his predecessors, former fast bowler Courtney Walsh.

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Educated women tend to be more assertive, partly because they tend to earn more and so are less dependent on their husbands.

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