Savitskaya became a cosmonaut in 1980 and was the second woman to go into space, preceded only by fellow cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.

萨维茨卡娅于1980年成为一名宇航员，而且是第二名进入太空的妇女，领先的只有同伴宇航员捷列什科娃(Valentina Tereshkova)。

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The new policy also recognizes that for a long time now only a minority of "adjustment" lending operations have been preceded by a crisis to which adjustment is necessary.

新的政策还认识到，在此之前很长一段时间内，只有在少数的“调整”贷款业务之前出现过必须予以调整的危机。

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And bubonic plague, spread by rat fleas, is normally preceded by the death of hordes of rats (only then do the fleas opt for humans). Yet no one in 1348 recorded this.

黑死病由鼠蚤传播，在此之前通常都有大批的老鼠死亡(只有在这时跳蚤才选择人类作宿主)，但在1348年没有人记录下这些。

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Michael Bordo of Rutgers University and Christopher Meissner of the University of California, Davis, looked at 14 financial busts in rich countries between 1920 and 2008 and found that these crises were typically preceded by credit booms, but only occasionally by rising inequality.

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That can be bestowed only in clean elections, preceded by fair campaigns.

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Ironically, the recent surge in Microsoft was immediately preceded by bad news from the research firm IDC that only 67.3 million PCs were shipped in the first quarter of 2013.

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