"It's set to take over from North America in absolute terms of movement and I think that's a good sign as well that intra-Asia, the demand is definitely coming back."

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

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Just to amuse yourself, not for any kind of punitive think-about-the-exam exercise, but it would be fun to take these categories and think about these other countries, particularly those who were absolute states, other large important states in Europe and see to what extent you have these factors there.

我们可以做件有趣的事,纯粹为了娱乐,不是为了考试练习,即用同样的方法分析其他国家,特别是那些绝对主义国家,以及其他重要的欧洲大国,看看这些因素对政治结局的影响程度

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