Ever since he came back from that conference in Silicon Valley, he "s been coming to work dressed in jeans and sweatshirts."

自从他参加弯硅谷的会议回来之后，他就一直穿着牛仔裤和运动衫来上班。

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Now, Ludwig van Beethoven was in his fifties when he was working on his last symphony-- what would prove to be his last symphony-- his Ninth Symphony, and he'd been tinkering with this particular melody all the way back to probably 1803, so it's about twenty years or so.

路德维希·凡·贝多芬在五十多岁时,创作了他最后一首交响乐,后来成为他最后的交响曲,就是他的第九交响曲,他一直在锤炼这段旋律,也许要追溯到一八零三年,所以大概经历了二十个年头

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"I know he's been working hard and he's been working hard to come back and he does work, " Steinbrenner said.

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But he's been back at his regular level since sitting out a pair of games last month to get treatment on his ankles.

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As host for the teaching awards - the annual teachers' Oscars - he's been looking back at his own school days in the 1970s.

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