The profits rise was achieved against a backdrop of falling metal prices.

利润的增长是在金属价格下降的背景下取得的。

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The election will take place against a backdrop of increasing instability.

选举的背景是逐渐不稳的局势。

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Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.

一项最新民调发现，在经济和人口结构发生巨变的背景下，美国的年轻一代正在绘制一幅21世纪通向成功的地图。

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Against a backdrop of emerald palm leaves, Suminah Sukardi plunges multi-colored cloth into a steaming cauldron.

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It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

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So defamiliarization, against the backdrop of a kind of gray uniformity that Jakobson in his essay on byt "The Generation that Squandered its Poets" called "byt"-- I don't know how to pronounce that.

陌生化所针对的，灰色一致性,正如雅各布森在他的论文,浪费诗人的时代中提到的，称为-,我不知道这个词怎么发音。

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Here, familes can splash about in the warm turquoise waters against a backdrop of eerie lava fields.

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Of course, this is also playing out against a backdrop of declining spending and rising delinquencies.

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The election comes amid a backdrop of rapid change for this growing city of 250, 000.

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