You have to be firm, but at the same time you should try and be sympathetic.

你必须要严格，不过也应尽量怀有同情心。

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This long-time policy gave senators firm control over local federal jobs.

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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The point is that in this game in which firms competed in prices, even though there were only two firms in the market, only one firm more than monopoly, we get a dramatically different result than we had last time.

重点是这个公司进行价格竞争的博弈,尽管博弈中只有两家公司,仅仅比垄断情况下多了一家,我们得到了与上次完全不同的结果

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"There was little chance many of my peers would have considered a move from a big law firm at that time, " says Mr. Fishman, now a senior associate at the respected firm.

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The NASD Program permits investors to only view information about one firm at a time.

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Cohn said the move would help the firm devote more time to the selection process.

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