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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."
他回忆道，有时候，在不得不跟令人恼火的上司相处时，“我感觉我们就像是一对感情破裂的夫妻。”
In China, that higher-up would just ask for more money.
而在中国，更高级别官员的索贿金额只多不少。
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Complete all of tasks from higher-up.
完成上级布置的任务。

"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.
不知道怎么回事,接着伦敦地产陷入低潮,接着又暴涨至更高点
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That rate of rise is steeper so they--antibody levels go up more rapidly and they reach a higher level.
同时,上升速度也更加迅速,以达到更高的浓度水平
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Apparently that interview was so close to the truth as to threaten the gangsters and their higher-up accomplices.
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