Some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.

有些文化太善于排队了：前苏联的一个公民会加入队列，只是为了他能排在队伍的前头，看看每个人是为了什么而排队。

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The authorities should not have allowed the event to go ahead, against the wishes of most Serbs, just to score brownie points with the European Union, which Serbia wants to join.

塞尔维亚希望能加入欧盟，但当局不应该不顾多数塞尔维亚人的反对允许这次游行继续进行，而这么做仅仅为了博得欧盟的认可和褒扬。

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Usdaw hopes that its members will have more of a say in company affairs and that more non-Usdawites (who make up just under half of Tesco's employees) will want to join the union in order to increase their influence in the company.

ECONOMIST: Trade unions