Finally, it's worth noting that ideographic scripts like Chinese and Japanese tend to be parsimonious with characters compared to alphabetic scripts like Latin and Cyrillic.

最后，值得一提的是中文和日文这类象形文字，与Latin、Cyrillic这类字母文字相比，用字往往更少。

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But they have not been noticed because the dollar is now compared with other paper currencies-like the euro and yuan-where shifts have been nothing like as extreme.

然而，这一现象并没有引起人们的注意，因为美元现在以其他币种为参照，诸如欧元，人民币等，而这些货币的波动本身也极为剧烈。

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Compared with men are who like to regard cars as their born lovers, women prefer to treat them as their bosom friends, who, wherever they go, would like to follow them.

如果说男人对汽车的喜爱与生俱来，那女人更愿意把“她”当作随叫随到的闺中密友，无论走得多远，“她”都会一直跟在自己的身边。

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Matalan, which is based in Skelmersdale, west Lancashire, and has more than 150 stores, said that, for the five weeks to 11 January, like-for-like sales rose 1% compared with 13.1% in the previous year.

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For the January to March quarter, like-for-like food sales were up 2.5% compared with a year ago, while non-food sales rose 1.9%.

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