Some side conversations at the beginning of the session signaled that the group members had read it.

在谘商节数时间开始时的片面谈话，标示着团体的成员曾经阅读过它。

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Establish ground rules for more effective meetings, including having only one person talk at a time-no side conversations.

制定让会议更加有效率的基本规则，包括一次只能有一个人发言，其他人不得私下议论。

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At other times it's more that many people are gathered in the same area, but it's okay if little side conversations break off.

但更多的是有些时候，许多人聚集在同一个地方，几小撮人可以各自谈论各自的话题。

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Anne Simpson, head of corporate governance at Calpers, the Californian state pension fund, urged Apple to "keep calm and carry on" with the changes it had proposed, and not to be swayed by "side conversations with a single shareholder".

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He added a negative side of Twitter was that conversations could be seen out of context and it was hard to express a point in the 140 character limit.

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Half of all college students observe the dumb and dangerous stunts, rambling conversations and other side effects of overconsumption around them and opt to imbibe moderately or not at all.

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