He had actually left the company a year before the rumpus started.

其实在争吵开始一年前，他就已经离开了这家公司。

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The rumpus has made all the optimistic statements about unity and harmony ring a little hollow.

这一番吵闹使得所有关于团结和谐的乐观言论听起来都显得有几分空洞。

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Another difficulty is that, as the rumpus over forests demonstrates, Britons seem to be more easily mobilised to prevent something undesirable happening than to create something new.

另一个困难在于，就像关于森林问题显示的争吵一样，英国人似乎更加容易被鼓动起来制止某些不愿意的事情发生，而不是来创造一些新的东西。

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The Rumpus And when we're not pictured in The Rumpus it can really hurt.

当我们没有出现在,真是太打击人了。

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That will be a fight far fiercer than the rumpus over affirmative action five years ago.

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The rumpus has rumbled on ever since with each side taking increasingly-entrenched stands, culminating in Friday's legal action.

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An Israeli army jeep idled by, briefly surveyed the rumpus, and drove on.

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