Since the young chief never learned the ways of his ancestors, he tells them to collect firewood, then he goes off and calls the National Weather Service. "Will the winter be bad?" he asks.

由于新酋长根本没有从祖先那里学到判断天气的方法，于是他在让部下去收集柴火的同时，跑去打电话询问国家气象局。

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"You ever read Superman comic books?" asks Eric Edelman, the former Pentagon policy chief.

“你曾看过超人漫画吗？”五角大楼前政策主管埃里克·埃德尔曼问道。

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The Chief Engineer asks to be signed off.

轮机长要求解除合同。

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It's a clear vote of confidence when one company buys another and asks the chief executive of its target to take charge of the merged firm.

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He asks the chief executive of the Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs), which represents the credit card industry, what the banks are thinking of lending money to people who will never be able to afford to pay it back.

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Why wasn't the IRS "scrutinizing the big fish, " asks Paul Ryan, the chief lawyer for the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group that has pushed (unsuccessfully) for the IRS to investigate these groups.

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