Setting this kind of soft deadline will give you a crucial grace period to deal with unforeseen problems. You might even have time to recover from outright catastrophes.

设定这种“软期限”目的在于让自己能够拥有宝贵的时间来从容应对意外发生的问题，甚至从灭顶之灾中恢复过来。

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Any deal based on an outright lie will come back to haunt you.

基于谎言的交易将会像噩梦一样萦绕着你。

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In June of last year, Microsoft said it was no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo outright, but would like to enter a deal for Yahoo's search advertisement business.

去年6月份，微软公开放弃收购雅虎，但是却表达了在广告搜索领域与雅虎的合作意向。

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The provincial Liberal and Reform parties, and some in the media, condemn the deal outright.

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Some have opposed the deal outright, for undermining the NPT by giving nuclear India more rights than non-nuclear countries that have signed the treaty.

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What Mario Draghi finds unacceptable is that the Euro must deal with market challenges that threaten its integrity and stability (if not outright existence).

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