It means the company went bankrupt and never paid; otherwise, the coupons would have been clipped.

这意味着那家公司破产了,无法兑现,否则,息票肯定会被剪掉

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The second one, I guess, involves an active choice of pushing a person down which I guess that person himself would otherwise not have been involved in the situation at all.

我认为第二种情况，牵涉到主动选择推人,而被推的这个人,本来跟这事件一点关系都没有。

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These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.

有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了

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