Designers, too, are trying to position themselves in front of the wave.

设计师们也在试图抢占这股浪潮的前沿。

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Which might explain why we wave our hands, exhaustively, when trying to be understood in countries where we don't speak the language.

这或许能解释，当我们在异国他乡的时候，为了让别人理解我们，为什么我们会拼命舞动我们的手。

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Though we certainly weren't trying to inflame or shock , we set of a wave of anger.

尽管我们肯定不会故意去激怒某人或者惹人厌，但我们还是制造了许多非议。

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In Mississippi, another Democrat, Ronnie Musgrove, is trying to ride that wave without seeming to enjoy it too much (Mr Obama is still hard to sell to older, conservative white Democrats).

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It refers to the all-too-common dynamic of the people who got there first trying to keep the next wave of others (who used to be just like them) far, far away.

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Goldfarb attributed much of the momentum to continuity at the top of the company, perhaps a veiled barb at competitor Morgan Stanley, which is being pelted with criticism and trying to stem a wave of executive departures.

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