It was the first time in years that a Japanese manufacturer had not topped the list for imported vehicles.

这是多年来日本厂商第一次未能位居进口汽车名单榜首。

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It was the first time in his life that he'd slept out of doors.

那是他有生以来第一次露宿。

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The Great Pyramid was considered a unique building in the 19th century. At that time, it was still the tallest in the world.

大金字塔在19世纪被视为一座独特的建筑。在那个时候，它仍然是世界上最高的建筑。

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It also found that the children's ability was not dependent on the amount of time they had spent in child care.

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You could vote for, as it was in that time, Gore, Bush, Nader, or not voting and I'll leave it to you to decide which of those is equivalent to not voting.

当时你可以这样投票,你可以投给戈尔,布什,纳德,或者投弃权票,我留给你们自己去考虑,投给谁等于弃权

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It began to infiltrate other disciplines and was in general a high-spirited horse for that certain period of time.

它逐渐渗入到其它学科,总之是那个时代的一匹黑马。

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One from, say, the British security side is that the police went to see him to alert him that Sinn Fein and the IRA had finally cottoned on that he was a spy and that his life was in danger, and it was time that he move out as quickly as he could with his wife and his family.

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Instead, the government blocked any company that was not Siga Technologies, arguing that the drug stockpile was needed in the next five years and only Siga Technologies was in a position to provide it in that time period.

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While it was legally necessary, per the contracts in place at the time, it was the sort of political blunder that, in previous eras, might have triggered mass tarring and feathering.

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