Joseph in fact wouldn't have minded a drink. But this wasn't the place for it.

实际上约瑟夫是想喝一杯的，但这个场合不行。

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Professor Desai says the search for solutions after a failure can make leaders more open-minded.

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His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

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when I actually transferred. I went from a very closed-minded school with a very similar dynamic.

当我真正转学过来的时候，我来自一个非常封闭，一成不变的学校，

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Yet the very fact that many big businesses seem so strategically like-minded a few months ahead of a legislative drop-dead day (literally) suggests a quieter brand of leadership, one wholly appropriate to the current exigent circumstance.

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The number of diamond retailers in a metro are an indicator of the engagement market, and to gage how marriage-minded a city was we looked to the top metro markets as measured by wedding planning site TheKnot.com.

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Layton and I used to climb Bald Man's Gap, the exact apex of the divide he taking care not to spill the glass of water clutched in between his hands, while I minded a rudimentary pinhole camera that I had fashioned from a shoe box.

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