Now we 've got the pleasantries out of the way .

客套的话我们就不多说了。

What do you say we do away with the unnecessary pleasantries ?

我们跳过那些不必要的玩笑吧？

But the pleasantries didn 't narrow the distance between the two sides -- and it isn 't hard to find deep skepticism in the mining industry .

但上述的客套话并不能缩窄双方的距离，不难发现矿产企业中弥漫着深深的疑虑。