Be polite, but don 't kowtow to him.

对他要有礼貌，但不要卑躬屈膝。

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Was the story hard to follow? Was it self-contradictory, and in what ways? Anything? Just don't even be polite, just throw it right out there. Yes?

有没有什么地方不连贯？或者自相矛盾？,有何矛盾？有吗？说出来，现在，在这里，好吗？

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"I feel at that kind of event it would just be polite to check that the band wouldn't mind being associated with the party, " he said.

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He said people come to him and say they don't necessarily have a problem with being stopped, but they wished police would be more polite.

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Participants making a full smile performed better than the polite-smile group, but the difference wasn't statistically significant and needs to be studied further, she says.

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