I've got friends, of course, but my business has always been the same a one-man affair. That is why I have always Played a lone hand.

当然，我也有朋友，但是我的生意还是一个人的事情，那就为什么我一直扮演一个孤独者的角色。

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Global energy reserves being distributed as they are, foreign oil majors will surely take whatever terms Russia offers; anyway, some Russians believe, business always is a grubby affair.

既然全球能源储备的分布格局有利于俄罗斯，那么外国石油巨头自然会对俄方提出的要求全盘皆收。总之，一些俄罗斯人对“生意场上无非就是黑吃黑”的潜逻辑笃信不疑。

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Whatever else carnival may be, it is above all a pageant and no time for tears. And it is now a big business too, rather than the cosy community affair of old.

尽管人们可能带着某些情绪，但毕竟这是个狂欢节，是一桩没有太多时间留给眼泪的大买卖，不应该有一丁点敬老院里的舒适和缓慢。

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But as I said, this may require a new version of the enterprise application and all the customizations to fit your infrastructure and business processes a costly affair.

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Clinton's five-hour stopover on March 25 was a low-key affair, brusquely business-like and conspicuously devoid of the enthusiastic celebration of local life that had marked Clinton's triumphal passage across India.

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