We all know that buying wine in a restaurant can be tricky and intimidating, and that a wine list you can't navigate can be all it takes to dampen a night out.

我们都知道在餐厅里购买葡萄酒容易受骗，面对你不熟悉的葡萄酒单，可能会打击掉整个晚上的好心情。

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But comments out of China Tuesday seemed to dampen this theory even more than news from the IMF last month.

不过，中国方面周二的说法似乎给上述推测泼了一盆冷水，甚至比上个月IMF传出的消息还要有力。

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Use socks as a mop: If you run out of sheets for your wet/dry mops, just dampen an inside-out sock with cleaning solution, stretch it around the mop head and use it as you ordinarily would.

用袜子当拖把：如果干拖把或湿拖把的替换头用完了，可以将翻过来的袜子用洗涤液浸湿，伸拉开放到拖把头上，然后就像平常一样使用。

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Other buildings will be completed soon, and though there aren't many now under construction to follow them, Gordon Brown's determination to shift civil-service jobs out of London will dampen demand in the years ahead.

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Fisker's Karma series-hybrid electric vehicle hasn't exactly been receiving a lot of great press lately, but the company didn't let the process of swapping out 640 battery packs dampen the launch of that car's smaller sibling, the Atlantic.

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The FIA -- motorsport's governing body -- announced their decision on Monday, but it has done little to dampen speculation and stories continue to spill out in its wake.

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