The officer didn't give in and said, it's nothing to steal just a copper piece. Could it be that you can kill me?

小吏不服说：偷了一枚铜钱有什么了不起，难道你还能杀了我？

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"Unfortunately, I am bearish and I have been wrong, " said Samer Nsouli, chief investment officer at Lyford Group International, a hedge fund, who argues that recent weakness in copper and oil is a portent of a global slowdown.

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