积极礼让的基本特征是它的自愿性。

The basic feature of positive comity is its voluntariness.

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它原本应该是礼让的，有组织性的，但它不是；

They could have been more polite and organized, but they weren't.

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为拿下这个项目，竞争变得十分激烈，原本互相礼让的公司现在争得各不相让。

The competition for the project was so fierce that these normally gentleman-like firms were taking the gloves off.

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I don't mean necessarily by a "gentlemen" somebody who holds the door for others, or so on, but somebody who stands up for his family and friends in the way that he does.

绅士，“不只是“,愿意礼让他人进出之类的人，而更是像他那样,愿意起身捍卫家族与朋友的人。

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