If you do this, you won't be buffeted about by outside events.

如果这点你做到了，你就不会遭受外在事件的打击。

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Be purposeful. Change occurs but you do not need to be buffeted by it.

有目的性。改变会发生，可你不需要受它的袭击。

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Or whether we sit by and allow relations between states to be buffeted by economic and strategic shifts and shocks.

还是袖手旁观，任国与国之间的关系经受经济和战略变化与震动的冲击。

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But it also damaged Mr Brown, as the lack of a strong domestic narrative allowed his government to be buffeted around by events as frivolous as a botched YouTube appearance in April.

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Mr Lebed might be wise, however, to stay away in Siberia while politicians in Moscow are mocked and buffeted by events.

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