The desire to beat the competition can lead a company astray — or drive it to even greater heights.

击败竞争对手的渴望，有时会导致公司误入歧途，有时会带动公司达到更高的水平。

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Don’t constantly think about it or beat yourself up over what you should have done differently.

不要总是在想它或者思考一些你本应该哪样做等一些另你崩溃的问题。

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It is forbidden to beat or abuse, mistreat or insult the offender.

禁止对违反治安管理的人打骂、虐待或者侮辱。

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With syncopation the impulse can come suddenly off the beat, and it gives it a little snap or jazzy aspect to the music.

在切分音里,冲动会突然打乱节拍,让音乐听起来突兀,奔放

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The beat will do--control--that, so it's the pace or speed of the beat.

节拍才是根本,所以速度指节拍的快慢

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It's as though I've walked across the stage like this realized, damn, it was the guy over here or rather I found the smallest element here who beat out number 2 over here so I can now put number 1 into place and recall that it didn't matte if I punted whoever was standing here 'cause they were given to me randomly anyway.

这就像是我这样走过讲台,然后才发现要找的人在那儿,或者说发现了最小的元素,那么就可以将1号放在正确的位置,而在这儿的是谁并不重要,因为他们本身就是,随机的。

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And so that you get into the problem that you don't have the resources to spend on things that we know have a deterrent effect, we know have an effect on crime, whether it's the cop on the beat or it's social service.

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While Nokia said it would meet or beat its first-quarter profits target, it also said sales would be slightly below its previous forecast of a decline of 6-10%, largely because of a big drop in sales of network equipment.

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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal testified that Congress needed to enact new laws covering hedge fund activities and that law enforcement needed to exact stiffer penalties, or the states would beat it to the punch.

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