Whether academic research actually produces anything that is useful to the practice of business, or even whether it is its job to do so, are questions that can provoke vigorous arguments on campus.

无论学术研究实际上是否对商业实践有益，还是甚至于它们的职责是否确实如此，这些问题都在校园内引起了激烈的争论。

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If they are strangers, or people from a different walk of life, opening a door for them may provoke surprise. Most likely, it will be the kind of surprise which brings a smile to their face.

如果对方是陌生人或者来自其他阶层，为他开门可能会令他意外，很可能还会让他因这个意外而面露微笑。

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How Mr Miliband and his front bench team will handle that giant - tame it, provoke it or cosy up to it - remains to be seen.

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Does it provoke inflation, or recession, or both?

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Does it provoke one to think or, more importantly, do?

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