Robert Gates sat before them, almost penitent about the past.

罗伯特·盖茨坐在他们面前，对过去的事几乎无颜以对。

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LoveFone, a company that advocates repairing cellphones rather than abandoning them, opened a mini workshop in a London phone box in 2016. The tiny shops made economic sense, according to Robert Kerr, a founder of LoveFone.

LoveFone 是一家提倡手机维修，反对丢弃手机的公司。该公司于2016年在伦敦的一间电话亭里开设了一个迷你工作室，LoveFone 的创始人罗伯特·科尔表示，这间小工作室具有一定的经济意义。

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Party member Robert Moute says elders need to cede top positions to younger members and support them without suffocating them.

莫特说，年老的成员需要把高层职位让给年轻的一辈，要支持他们，不要压制他们。

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U.S.officials have largely refrained from publicly speaking about the operations, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this year there are no plans to stop them.

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Sorting them out carefully with his eyes after he had seen them first together, Robert Jordan looked them over individually.

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One of them is Robert A. Haugen, a financial economist best known for his pioneering research on market inefficiency.

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Offenders have to come clean and admit every crime they've been involved in. between them, Robert and Ian Stewart admitted more than 100 crimes.

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