A person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later.

如果一个人在双方的要求下同意充当交战双方的调解人，那么他就会同意以后站队的权利。

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One of my most embarrassing moments was when I had a Chinese-American employee put in a request to take time off to celebrate Chinese New Year.

让一名美籍华人员工申请休假来庆祝中国春节，是我最尴尬的时刻。

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Again, the initial request will take longer that subsequent ones.

再一次，初始请求会比后来的请求花费更长的时间。

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World Bank president James Wolfensohn said he would want to take any request to provide technical assistance to Iraq to his board before agreeing to such a step - a point of view which seemed to both surprise and dismay Mr Snow.

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But managers at all levels colluded with him to take a simple request and turn it into a time-consuming effort.

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