Recently, I got a chance to drive the latest edition of this automotive epic, the 2012 Beetle, and it made me think about all its incarnations over the last three quarters of a century.

最近，我有机会试驾了最新款的2012年版甲壳虫，它让我回想了过去75年来，这款拥有汽车史诗地位的“汽车活化石”的前世今生。

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Minnesota's last recount, which began in 2008, was truly epic.

明尼苏达州的上一次重新计票始于2008年，那是一场名副其实的传奇。

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The last time we’d spoken, in September, he’d surprised me with an epic story of sneaking off by boat with his brother to fight in Tripoli.

我们上次在九月交谈时，他史诗般的故事让我吃惊，他和他的兄弟偷偷乘船前往的黎波里参加战斗。

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It will be a repeat of their epic last-four clash at the Australian Open in January, when Djokovic prevailed in five sets on his way to his fifth grand slam crown.

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It was a very nervy finish for the 2001, 2004 and 2008 champion but he hung on with a 73 in the last to set up a mouth-watering clash with Williams three months after their epic last-frame thriller in the Masters semi-final.

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He went on to direct such landmark dramas as The Conformist, the controversial Last Tango and historical epic The Last Emperor, winner of nine Academy Awards in 1988.

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