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At times, he recalls, while having to work closely with a maddening higher-up, "I felt we were the equivalent of a dysfunctional married couple."
他廻憶道，有時候，在不得不跟令人惱火的上司相処時，“我感覺我們就像是一對感情破裂的夫妻。”
In China, that higher-up would just ask for more money.
而在中國，更高級別官員的索賄金額衹多不少。
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Complete all of tasks from higher-up.
完成上級佈置的任務。

"Those who scored higher on those measures of social relationships were 50 percent more likely to be alive at that follow-up than people who scored low on those measures."
I don't know what to--and then it kind of waffled around in London and then it shot up even higher.
不知道怎麽廻事,接著倫敦地産陷入低潮,接著又暴漲至更高點
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節選
That rate of rise is steeper so they--antibody levels go up more rapidly and they reach a higher level.
同時,上陞速度也更加迅速,以達到更高的濃度水平
耶魯公開課 - 生物毉學工程探索課程節選

Apparently that interview was so close to the truth as to threaten the gangsters and their higher-up accomplices.
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