Don't sit down before the other side greets you to sit down, don't shake hands with the other side voluntarily.

在对方招呼你坐下以前不要坐下，不要主动和对方握手。

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Rarely do any of us sit down before a table of facts, weigh them pro and con, and choose the most logical and rational explanation, regardless of what we previously believed.

我们很少会坐下来，把事实摊开，仔细衡量正反两面，撇开我们以前所相信的，而选择出最合乎逻辑与理性的解释。

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Before I did my homework, he would sit me down with three cookies and a glass of milk.

在我做作业之前，他会让我坐下来吃三块饼干，以及喝一杯牛奶。

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You sit down the night before and you had a couple of ideas.

交论文前一晚终于坐下来，有几个点子。

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We're also posting a practice exam for you to take, so after you're completely done your studying, it's good to have everything done before you take the practice exam, and then sit down just with this sheet here and your calculator, and ideally a timer, and make sure you can do the practice exam in the allotted amount of time.

我们还将给出一份模拟试题，因此在你完全复习好之后，最好先复习完,再做这份模拟试题，坐下来,只拿出这张表与计算器，最好还有个计时器，确保自己完成模拟题,在规定的时间内。

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Just before we sit down to chat about her weeks-old wine studio, seconds before we turn our cameras on her, Laura Maniec realizes that her shoes are all wrong.

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Back in 2008 he turned down months of interview requests before agreeing to sit down with Forbes for this story ("The Crossing") on his oil and gas business, and this one ("A Wildcatter in Love With Warbirds") on his passion for collecting vintage World War II fighter planes.

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Now, before I sit down, I have one important honor.

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