Both of them would have been fired but they whined and pleaded so much that the supervisor kept the matter under a lid.
本来要开除她们俩，但她们一个劲儿地哭诉、恳求，弄得那个监管员只好把这事儿压了下来。
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But Indonesia has coal-fired power stations under construction that will absorb an extra 20m tonnes or so of coal by 2011, points out Adam Worthington, a commodities analyst at Macquarie Securities.
He said that several coal-fired plants begun earlier are still under construction. Duke Energy, for example, is expecting to finish its Cliffside and Edwardsport coal plants in 2012.