The government was prepared to keep a tight hold on public sector pay rises.

政府准备保持对公共部门薪资增长的严格控制。

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We're a tight group, so we do keep in touch.

我们是一个亲密的团体，所以我们的确保持着联系。

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I keep the flour and sugar in individual jars, sealed tight with their glass lids.

我把面粉和糖分别放在罐子里，并用玻璃盖密封。

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Secretary Gates says he believes Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons and that the international community must keep it on "tight enough deadlines and specific enough requirements" to determine whether its government is seriously interested in taking a different course.

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But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

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Auditors have said the European Union has failed to keep tight enough control over its own spending.

BBC: EU criticised for wasting funds

This indicates that consumers continue to pay off their credit card debt as issuers keep tight limits on lending.

FORBES: Credit Card Debt Continues to Fall

" His novelistic style, he says, owes a lot to screenwriting: "Keep it tight, keep those pages turning, delete the extraneous.

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