If you stay positive in your office conversations, you'll never need to defend your words or repair hurt feelings.

如果你在办公室交谈中从不发表负面言论，你就不必为自己辩护或者安抚受到伤害的人。

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Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

也许我对午餐、茶水间闲聊、关心他人、深入而有意义的谈话的期望是我上次在那种办公室环境中遗留下来的。

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Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip, and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

也许我对午餐、茶水间的八卦、关心、深刻和有意义的谈话的期待，是上次那种办公室环境留给我的后遗症。

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Men who dominate office conversations are more likely to get ahead, but women who do the same tend to be seen as less capable, new research suggests.

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Fortunately, most of them plan to keep all political conversations out of the office.

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