Then in 2008, as the recession deepened and toy sales in the U. S. fell on average by 5 percent, Lego sales in America actually climbed 38 percent.

然后是2008年的经济衰退，美国的玩具市场销售量平均减少了5％，可是乐高公司在美国的销售量却成长了38％。

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Hoover's ghastly mistakes brought on the disaster and then deepened it.

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Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations took high-handed actions that pre-cipitated and then deepened and prolonged the economic crisis that was battering both the U.S. and the rest of the world and made possible the rise of Nazism and the advent of World War II.

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Clinton appointed him ambassador to Germany and then, when the Bosnian crisis deepened, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.

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