If you can't persuade him to lend us the money, how do you expect me to work the oracle?

如果你尚且不能说服他借钱给我们，又怎能指望我做得到呢？

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The scoring slowed right down as the ball started to turn and before long India turned to the irrepressible Yuvraj to work the oracle again.

BBC: By Jonathan Stevenson

And on March 24th, Novell announced that it would work with Oracle, the world's biggest database firm, to develop applications for intranets.

ECONOMIST: Novell

Now Cisco is showcasing Lew Tucker, a well-known veteran of developer work at both Salesforce and the pre-Oracle Sun Microsystems, who came on as cloud CTO in the middle of this year.

FORBES: Cisco Wants Cloud Developers