Conciseness: do we want to make point-blank requests or give room for maneuver?

单刀直入：咱们是该明确要求呢，还是给个商量空间的？

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Supporters of college education point out that students who attend vocational schools will make less money on average.

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But the point I want to make about it is much more general and we don't have to look at particular cases to make it.

但是我想说的是这是很普遍的,我们不用看很多特例去研究它。

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And this goes back to the point I tried to make last time. Yes, the computers are really fast.

也会迅速膨胀,这就回到了我上次给大家讲的那一点。

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Make your point and make it fast before you lose your face-time with your audience.

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It might strike you as a government that already has 'a very nicely appointed office' - and a pretty cheap deal at that - moving out primarily because they want to make a point, rather than make money for Welsh business.

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So the reason I make that point is you can't ask local elected officials to raise teachers' salaries and cut taxes and balance the budget and increase roads -- at some point you've got to make some choices.

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