Britain will be rent, not by class warfare, but by an age divide, a new book argues.

一本新书的论断：英国将被年龄分界线挂牌出租，而并非阶级利益。

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In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible and irresistible spring in his nape.

在这种情况下，我认为他不是受思想，而是受他后颈里某个看不到却无法抗拒的发条的控制。

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But by an astonishing coincidence, an employee from the same company stumbled across the ring more than 2 years later at a sewage processing plant.

谁料两年多后，这家公司的一名员工在巧合之下，在一个污水处理场发现了这枚戒指。 据悉，钻戒上镶嵌了一颗价值非凡的大钻石，以及12颗小钻石。

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But by the end of my first year in the city, I had become an expert with the microscope.

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So this we would want to delete in order for the code not to run the risk of crashing, but let's now see this was made by an excellent teacher out at Stanford University.

我要按顺序删除它，不要冒崩溃的风险,但是这个是由一个来自斯坦福大学的,优秀教师做的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations.

慧血》作者从来不局限于理论范畴,而是有自己的侧重点。

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David Trimble has consistently won backing for his policies at recent UUC meetings, but by an increasingly narrow margin.

BBC: Meeting call 'an abuse' of rules

Even many not directly affected by the tsunami are feeling disadvantaged such as those displaced for years, not by an act of God, but by an all-too-human war.

ECONOMIST: Peace is no nearer in Sri Lanka

And the clean-up will not be supervised by the finance ministry, which nobody trusts, but by an independent committee (although in a last-minute compromise the finance ministry did win some say).

ECONOMIST: Japanese banking