Yet by Mr Immelt's own admission, GE's reputation as a safe port in an economic storm has been "tarnished".

然而，就连伊梅尔特本人也坦言，在这场经济风暴中，GE作为安全避风港的光环已失去光泽。

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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

船舶在港口里当然安全，但船不是为停泊在港湾里而建造的。

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A ship in port is safe.

港湾中的轮船是安全的！

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"She was very bold, " said Ensler, who at Merlet's insistence brought her play "The Vagina Monologues" to Haiti and helped establish safe houses for women in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien.

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Neritan Ceka, the energetic interior minister, has made road travel along main routes relatively safe by daylight and captured a bunch of criminal leaders in the southern port of Vlora, the hub of Albania's mafia.

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