I tried to emphasize my good points without sounding boastful.

我在强调自己的优点时尽量不让人觉得是在自我吹嘘。

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Whether the dollar continues as top currency rests in American hands, he concludes, sounding ambivalent about whether that is good news or bad.

他的结论是，美元能否继续占据主导货币的地位，主要取决于美国人自己。但对于这是好事还是坏事，他似乎不置可否。

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Often a good advisor is more sounding board and less Magic-8 ball.

通常一个好的建议者更像是被建议者的共鸣板，而不是占卦未来的魔力8号球。

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"Pizza has been sounding really good and a Coca Cola,".

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So rather than, you know, pump up the second half with a bunch of, sort of hyper songs to bring a different energy, I decided to just go with what was feeling good, because what we were recording were sounding really good.

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While one might make a good sounding case for a different tax system, it is quite another thing to come up with a scheme that will actually gain political momentum and can be affected.

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That leads to a prosecution and a conviction by jurors swayed by impressive sounding experts who spin a good tale, offering expert opinion dressed up as proven science.

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