The boss told us to look sharp when the president comes for a visit.

老板要我们在总裁来视察的时候机灵点。

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At the staff meeting this morning the boss told us she wanted to see us at our desks busy working instead of spending so much time standing around shooting the breeze with each other.

今天早上我们办公室开会的时候，我们的头儿说，她要看到我们都坐在自己桌子那里忙着干自己的活，而不是花好多时间站在那儿闲聊天。

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He told us not to bug the boss.

他告诉我们不要去激怒老板。

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And the fact that it was being sold at around cost price - as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos told us last year - meant that it was the bargain tablet at Christmas.

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Our Heritage boss, Herb Berkowitz, told us one of the perks of the PR internship was that we'd get to write an op-ed piece, which Heritage would distribute to newspapers throughout the country.

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