Are the answers you put down things that you personally researched, studied and found definable, concrete answers to?Or are they simply vague, wishy-washy answers you were told by someone else?

这些答案是你通过自己调查研究事物从而找出的确定、具体的答案， 还是只是别人告诉你的含糊无力的答案？

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That doesn't mean that all he has done has been negative. We needed someone to put his foot down.

但是这并不是说他所做的事情都是负面的，我们只是需要有人能够让他的脚步停下来。

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We needed someone to put his foot down.

我们只是需要一些脚踏实地人。

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If something makes you poorly and you are not happy about it, don't just put it down to chance or fate - someone put the bug there and should be held to account.

BBC: Former Health Minister Edwina Currie quizzed

Each time he advised the companies to put someone on a plane and track the CEO down to fire him face-to-face.

WSJ: Bad Call: Firing Yahoo CEO Bartz by Phone

Troubled though she was as a human being, with flaws and shortcomings well aired in the biographies written after her death, someone needed to put a marker down for individual liberty and limited government before both disappeared under the waves.

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