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基本解释

They focused on signing up merchants for the program with the promise that the affiliates would follow suit.
他们把精力集中在争取商家上面，向那些商家承诺会有联署站点跟随加入。
The two other studies asked people's opinion of a fictional CEO who asked his employees to take a pay cut and failed to follow suit, breaking a promise to refuse dividends from his stock.
另外两个研究是关于人们对一位虚构的CEO的看法。这位CEO给他的雇员减薪然后不遵循平时的做法，甚至也没有遵守关于股票和红利的诺言。
Other countries were slow to follow suit not because they were stupid, sluggish or repressed, but because they did not have that particular combination of expensive labour and inexpensive energy.
而其他国家没有跟随英国的脚步并非因为他们愚蠢，行动迟缓又遭到压制，而是因为他们没有同时拥有廉价劳动力和能源。

Last week,Britain's prime minister announced he would send if other NATO allies follow suit and the Afghan government expands its army.
But it will do so only if other NATO nations follow suit, the Afghan government pledges to fight corruption,and its forces have adequate equipment.

Gordon thinks other steakhouses will follow suit, and find even more ways to offer value.
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You can bet other carriers will be stepping up their efforts to follow suit.
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