BETIMES in the morning of the day on which the new Governor was to receive his office at the hands of the people, Hester Prynne and little Pearl came into the market-place.

在新总督从人民手中接受他的职位的那天早晨，海丝特·白兰和小珠儿来到市场。

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Edison didn't start delivering electricity to paying customers until he opened the Pearl Street power station in New York city in September 1882.

直到1882年9月爱迪生的珍珠街电站在纽约开张，他从没有给付费用户提供过电力。

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So Pearl — the elf-child, — the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch, persisted in considering her — became the richest heiress of her day, in the New World.

于是，小珠儿——那个小精灵，那个直到那时人们还坚持认为是恶魔的后裔，就成了当年新大陆的最富有的继承人。

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Holder said a potential scenario might involve a president ordering such action "to protect the homeland" in a case like the 2001 al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington or the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.

CNN: Holder does not rule out drone strike scenario in U.S.

The other eight cities in the Pearl River Delta plan will mean that the new unit will have a total of 42 million inhabitants.

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When it was started after Pearl Harbour in 1941, the aim of American Survey was to explain their new allies to the British.

ECONOMIST: Nancy Balfour