Or you can hurt things with your actions, make things worse than if you'd stayed still.

或者你的行动伤害到了某些东西，使事情更糟，还不如不做的好。

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Two investigations came to differing conclusions about her actions: One found she violated state ethics law by using state employees to put pressure on her former in-law, another found she had stayed within the law and little evidence she knew of the actions of her subordinates.

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