The prospect of a month without work was beckoning her.

一个月的闲暇时光令她神往。

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Heidi liked this prospect and followed Deta without more ado.

海蒂很喜欢这样的预期，毫不犹豫地跟在迪蒂后面。

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That's a frightening prospect for would-be competitors without such a robust revenue stream-potentially scary enough to discourage them from entering the market.

如果想要成为竞争者的人没有这样一个稳健的收益源，前景是可怕的——可能有的恐慌足以阻止他们进入这个市场。

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When a person in a position of trust and responsibility lets people down, and particularly if the faltering is due to a deficit of character (the usual suspicion and assumption), the person is almost always disgraced and branded for life, without prospect of ever regaining a position of trust (if, that its, he were so presumptuous as to seek one, which he would not be).

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On the other hand, it would be equally naive to expect the suburbs to lend a helping hand without some prospect of reward.

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Without the prospect of earning a profit, all activity above bare subsistence would cease (or would never have occurred) and mankind might still be in the caves.

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