With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past.

首先，我意识到让人凌晨4点起床的噪音不是普通的无礼，而是精心制造的恶意：在过去的圣诞节里，我没有给拉乌尔小费。

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In spite of all these difficulties, he refused to give up his hope of living and went on to study at Cambridge University after graduating from Oxford University.

尽管困难重重，他仍不放弃生活的希望，从牛津大学毕业后，他继续在剑桥大学学习。

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My hands trembled in spite of myself as I picked up the microphone.

当我拿起麦克风时，双手不由自主地颤抖起来。

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However, both Amazon and Apple are so far ahead that it will be hard for Microsoft to catch up in spite of the purchase.

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In the U.S., stocks have held up relatively well in spite of gloomy economy reports in part because of expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will soon step in with a third round of quantitative easing, known in the market as QE3.

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Here the GS4 seems to struggle again, in spite of the fact that reports leading up to its launch caused much excitement with details of eye-scrolling technology and air gestures.

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