Both have spent the past couple of years securing the interests of their own kinsmen, and frighteningoff international investors.
他们二人在过去的几十年一直在扩大本族人的利益,驱赶外来投资者。
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I saw she was sorry for his persevering sulkiness and indolence: her conscience reproved her for frightening him off improving himself: she had done it effectually.
The whole thing is frightening to start with, daunting and sometimes boring but it's like coming off a drug, coming down from something and you have to get used to it.