"Well here then, you can take my umbrella while you water them," the boss replied.

老板回答说：“来，这儿，你给它们浇水的时候可以把我的伞带上。”

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One afternoon, her boss came over to her desk and kindly asked her to water the plants, as she hadn't done it yet that day.

一天下午，她的老板来到她的办公桌前，温和地要求她给植物浇水，因为她那天还没有浇过水。

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"I met Clive at a dinner I hosted for my boss," Rajna says in a refined Eastern European drawl. "He was like a fish out of water and I was concerned, so I got talking with him."

“我是在为我的老板主持的一次晚宴上见到克雷夫的，”劳伊娜用文雅的东欧语调慢慢地说，“他那时就像一条离了水的鱼，他引起了我的注意，我和他交谈起来。”

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So Mr Ballmer these days increasingly talks in much the same way as, say, a water-company boss.

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