He tried to play down my part in the work and play up his own.

他试图贬低我在工作中的作用而夸大他自己的作用。

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Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work.

美国各地的企业已经裁员或者倒闭，给求职者留下的就业机会更少了。

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I got myself bogged down in routine work.

日常事务把我绊住了。

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The president will waste no time in Japan, getting to work almost immediately after Air Force One touches down at a Tokyo airport.

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The problems are set up so that, if you start down the right path, it should be pretty straight-forward to work it through If you start down a plausible but incorrect path, you can sometimes find yourself stuck in the weeds somewhere, and we want to bring you back in.

问题提出了，如果你从，一开始就走正确的道路，解决的途径,就一目了然了,如果你走上一条貌似正确但实际错误的道路，你会在某时某刻,发现自己陷入泥沼，于是我们就会把你拉回来。

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So if we were management consultants working for Mckinsey or something, and we were brought in to advise you on your homework assignments, or this law partnership on their work practices, we would come down with a prediction that this is how much work you're going to get.

如果我们是麦肯锡公司的管理顾问,或者给你们的作业提出点好的建议,或者对于现实中的律师事务所,我们都能够预测出来,你可能会投入多少工作量

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The same methods, of course, work in a down trending market.

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It's possible that by restating earnings down far enough for the past few years, Bristol could avoid accounting for inventory work-down in 2003.

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Going poorly, although figures out on April 7th did show that the number of Germans out of work in March was down from 4.8m to 4.6m, a rate of 12.1%.

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