1. How flexible are you on confidentiality?
在此事上有多大的回旋余地？
*be flexible on something
2. Because she walked away from half a million dollars.
*walk away from somebody/something: to leave a difficult situation or relationship, etc. instead of staying and trying to deal with it
3. So your first thought is to come to the state's attorney's office?
*the first thought is to do something
4. You ran a solid rape investigation.
*[transitive]run a test/check (on something): to do a test/check on something
*solid: that you can rely on; having a strong basis
- As yet, they have no solid evidence.
- His advice was always solid and practical.
- This provided a solid foundation for their marriage.
5. My law firm is bringing on a civil action.
*bring on: to make something develop, usually something unpleasant
*action: [countable,uncountable]a legal process to stop a person or company from doing something, or to make them pay for a mistake, etc. 诉讼
6. But out of compassion, I held back.
*out of some thing: used to show the reason why something is done
*hold back: to hesitate
7. Because we really hate to subpoena your books and client records.
*the books [plural]: the written records of the financial affairs of a business 账本
*client records
8. regular clients and special requests
*request: a thing that you formally ask for
9. I have to work late tonight.
*work late
10. There's probably less backstabbing than the state attorney's office.
*back-stabbing: the action of criticizing somebody when they are not there, while pretending to be their friend at other times
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