Price has become a more important consideration for shoppers in choosing which shop to visit than it was before the recession.

比起经济萧条前，价格已成为购物者们选择光顾哪家商店的一个更重要的考虑因素。

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In a 1984 book, Claire C, Robertson argued that, before colonialism, age was a more important indicator of status and authority than gender in Ghana and in Africa generally.

在1984年的一本书中，克莱尔· C ·罗伯逊认为，在殖民主义出现之前，在加纳和整个非洲，年龄是地位和权威的一个更重要的指标，而不是性别。

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Some people like small talk in a meeting before digging into important matters, while others are more straightforward.

有些人喜欢在深入讨论重要问题之前在会议上闲聊，而有些人则更直截了当。

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Let me first ask you this, is this a reversible or in irreversible process? Right, let me add one more piece of data here which I said in words but which is actually important to write down before doing the problem.

让我先问你们，这是可逆过程,还是不可逆过程？好,让我加上一点简要的,但是很重要的前提,【p1>p2】这是可逆的吗？

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This increases the chances of a drop back towards more important support before the long term uptrend resumes.

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He has a heightened focus, a sense that everything is more important than before, that this is his time and he has to make the most of it.

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The need for income certainty will become much more important than before and all of these factors are conducive to fixed income and positive for the development of greater depth and breadth of the regional asset-management industry.

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