Schools were closed and the number of cars permitted to move around the city cut by half, while crop sprayers soared over the city centre in an effort to thin the aerial mush.

学校停课，一半的车辆不允许在城市行驶，城市中心激增了许多农作物喷雾器，为的是驱散弥漫在空中的黑色烟雾。

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Once an hour, make an effort to return to the still-point in the centre of the whirlwind of thoughts, emotions and sensations.

每小时一次，做一项努力回到寂静之点，回到那处于旋风般思想，情感和感觉的中心。

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Perhaps in an effort to prod a somnolent, introspective Congress into action, he makes the dramatic claim that failure could mean America "would forfeit its seat at the centre of the global economy".

在督促死气沉沉，墨守成规的国会有所作为时，他语惊四座，“TPP如果失败，就意味着美国在全球经济中心将失去一席之地。”

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The special board has Bletchley Park, the wartime centre of the Allied code-cracking effort, taking the place of Mayfair, swaps houses and hotels for huts and blocks and has Turing's face on all the banknotes.

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But Rangers found themselves a goal behind after 12 minutes courtesy of a stunning effort from the most unlikely of sources, Greece centre-back Goumas.

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The 41 Communist MPs' action deprived the opposition centre-right Civic Democrats of victory in their effort to bring Mr Gross down.

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