A trusty standby is to say you are too busy - which has the added bonus of making you look important.

一个可信的应急办法是说自己太忙了——这还能带来一项额外好处，就是让自己显得重要。

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Miz Mendell also says it is important to look at family life as a whole.

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OK...Let's take a moment to look at India's international relations with some of the very important countries, say the United States.

好的，现在来谈谈,印度与一些地位重大的国家,之间的国际关系，比如说，美国。

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So you can see, and this is an important thing we look at, is that as we look at growth, it didn't look like it mattered a lot with 6.

现在你可以明白，我们在做的是一件很重要的工作，那就是当我们看到增长的时候，参数为6的时候倒是没什么关系。

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Simmering, you ask yourself if he ever glances at that fancy Movado or just wears it to look important.

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He added that while Wootton implied he was affiliated to Republican Sinn Fein, or other dissident republican groups, he thought he was only trying to make himself look important and big.

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Now, at least, he can look for the important things of his life.

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