Unlike most V. I. P. s, he was not content to end his Times visit in the polished confines of the executive floor but asked to be shown the workers' quarters.

与大多数贵宾不同的是，他不满足于只参观高管楼层精致的办公空间，还要求看看普通员工的工作地点。

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I think it's telling that this kind of creation is a failure; it cannot succeed in the confines of this novel.

我想这告诉我们这种创作是失败的;,它在这本小说的界限内无法成功。

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Now the media itself does have to report on this and within the media confines, it's not just trying to find the most extreme forms of rhetoric.

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Despite that restriction, I would like to make it clear that in the performance of my profession, I had no means but my pen and my speech and that in using those means, I never went beyond the narrow and limited confines of the Iranian government's laws and regulations.

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Having sat out on the balcony for the entire day, Ricky's dismissal almost sent me into the confines of the changing room to ponder another defeat at the hands of England.

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