Most venture firms employ a skeleton staff of in-house experts in areas such as recruiting and marketing to help advise start-ups.

大多数风投公司会征用一批的在如征聘和市场等领域的内部专家作为基干员工，来为新企业献策。

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THE ups and downs of house prices have provided an inexhaustible topic for dinner-party conversations for several years.

几年来，房价起起落落，成了餐会上茶余饭后永不枯竭的谈资。

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It is a house that is as soul-satisfying as it was when she first imagined it as a 15-year-old, even with the ups and downs that grown-up life brings.

她15岁第一次幻想这样一种风格的房子时，她就把它当作是一种心灵上的满足，而随着逐渐长大，生活上的浮浮沉沉依然没能改变她当年的想法，现在，这所丛林种的小别墅如往昔一样，给她带来了心灵上的满足。

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All it requires are some grown-ups in the Congress and a White House willing to participate in picking priorities in an effort to find a balance that will allow the nation to flourish long into the future.

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During dinner late one night, while Mr. Toba relaxed over a Japanese hot pot and local liquor, Taiga stomped around the house in basketball warm-ups and two pairs of eyeglasses one for his eyes and a pair of dark sunglasses perched on his forehead, because he thought they were cool.

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Actress Courteney Cox, a longtime client of Mr. McIlwee who until 2007 owned a home designed by Mr. Lautner, said she and Mr. McIlwee have bonded over the ups and downs of keeping up such an architecturally-complex house.

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