Progress has been reported in the negotiations recently, but the sides remain in a tense standoff.

据最近的报道，谈判已经取得了一些进展。但是，双方仍然处于紧张激烈的对峙状态。

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The French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde described the deal as a compromise agreed after sometimes frank and tense negotiations in Paris.

法国财长拉加德称，该协议是在巴黎进行了坦率的，紧张的谈判后达成的一项折中的方案。

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In the process of negotiations, the appropriate use of some skills and strategies, to a certain extent, will help ease the tense situation.

在谈判过程中可以恰当地使用一些技巧与策略，在一定程度上可以缓解紧张的局势。

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President Barack Obama on Monday said the U.S. has made headway in tense negotiations with Pakistan over the reopening of the vital supply routes, the closure of which has complicated U.S. efforts to end the decadelong war.

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Brubeck and Wright performed that same tune during a performance at the 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow, which U.S. diplomats credited with helping break the ice at a tense moment in arms control negotiations.

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