"We'll soon be at your station," I said rather abruptly.

“你马上要到站了。”我冷不丁地说。

youdao

This will be your luggage, I suppose? said the man rather abruptly when he saw me, pointing to my trunk in the passage.

“我想这就是你的行李了？”这人见了我，指着过道上我的箱子唐突地说。”

youdao

Perhaps it is better to be forewarned about what the future holds rather than be forced to confront it abruptly.

或许和突然被迫面对相比，预先警告未来可能会出现的情况要更好一些。

youdao

Unlike Gates, who has been carefully crafting his dismount over the last two years, Carnegie decided to retire rather abruptly.

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Whitman had employed Santillan without legal documentation to work in the U.S. She found out, it seems (around the time of announcing her bid for governor), then fired her rather abruptly.

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McCaw did rather abruptly resign from the Clearwire Board at year end so one can conjecture that maybe he is facing a similar crisis now and that is why he left the Board when he did in the way that he did.

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