In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey, with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which is going to the United States.

在10年多的时间里，阿根廷已经成为世界上最大的蜂蜜出口国，每年有近9万吨蜂蜜销往国外市场，其中近一半销往美国。

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The International Energy Association reported last year that nearly one and a half billion people in the world had no electricity to use, and most of them live in sub---Saharan Africa and in India and other countries in Asia.

国际能源协会去年报告说，世界上有近15亿人没有电可用，其中大多数人生活在撒哈拉以南非洲、印度和亚洲其他国家。

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Yet after nearly a year and a half, advanced smart phones are still in the “early adopter” phase in China, with some 93% of current subscribers still uncommitted to an operating system.

然后在一年或者半年后，高级的智能手机操作系统仍然处于早期阶段，当前的93%的用户将不会用到这些国外的操作系统。

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Of course, the crowd must be fed: in an average year, nearly half a million roast chickens, a quarter million sausages, 45, 000 pig's knuckles, and over one hundred whole oxen, spit roasted on giant rotisseries, are consumed.

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That may not seem much by Western standards, but it is more than what nearly half of their compatriots earn in a year.

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For Medicaid, in contrast, we spend nearly half a trillion dollars every year to provide the poor with worse care than is gained by the uninsured.

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