I still do not understand why it is impossible, in this country, to talk about someone without mentioning their salary, the cost of their car, the value of their house.

我至今仍弄不明白，为何在这样的一个国度中，谈论一个人时不谈论他的收入，他的车值多少，他房屋的价值是几乎不可能的。

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This is variously dressed up with talk of the "Swiss model" or of repatriating powers. But the basic idea is to access EU markets without paying EU regulatory costs.

这种做法可以用“瑞士模式”或回收权力等说法掩人耳目，但基本的思路就是不用支付任何的监管成本就进入欧盟市场。

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I often bring some props to use in case I have to do a sudden version of my talk without slides and yes, I have had to do this in one or two cases.

我常带着小道具以备不时之需，比如突然要进行没有幻灯片的演说。是的，已经发生过一两次这样的情况了。

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For our purposes, I think that won't be crucial, and so I'll sometimes talk about this set of abilities without actually having a canonical list.

但鉴于课程的目的,这点并不在我们的讨论重点之内,所以我也许偶尔会提及人的这些能力,但并不会把它们详尽地列举出来

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