During the Depression, mass unemployment meant it was not the time to experiment with cutting edge designs so skirts remained reassuringly long and subtly feminine.

经济大萧条时期，大规模的失业意味着缩短裙长的设计是不合时宜的，所以裙子理所当然地保持着长长的，女性化的风格。

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This was not the time to take risks; he knew he should play it by the rule book.

这不是冒险的时候，他知道他应该按规则行事。

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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 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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We were going down all the time because of it, because we could not see what was happening.

因此，我们的业绩一路下滑，也因为我们无法预测会发生什么。

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And not only was it a party school, you were going to have an amazing time for the four years and beyond.

不仅是个派对大学，而且未来四年甚至以后，都会过得很快乐。

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Writing in the Sunday Times, he warned ex-Cabinet members it was not the time for "grandstanding".

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Leighton Jenkins, from CBI Wales, said it was not the time to impose additional regulation on Welsh businesses.

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But Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the council, said it was not the time to impose sanctions.

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