The ballet company now occupies the middle ground between classical ballet and modern dance.

这个芭蕾舞团采取的是介于古典芭蕾舞和现代舞之间的风格。

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A cricket ground in a city transplants this rural greenness into modern urban society.

城市中的板球场把这种乡村新鲜转移到现代的城市社会。

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Yet without a doubt it is the second kind of sentence that is gaining ground in modern English.

然而，不容置疑的是，第二类的句子正在现代英语中愈来愈受认可。

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It is the only modern ground for southern Sri Lanka and was used by all three clubs and six schools in the area and has played host to 11 Test matches.

BBC: Jayananda Warnaweera

The AAMI Park stadium, a tidy and modern ground set in the middle of a cluster of grounds that includes the MCG, the Rod Laver Arena and the old Olympic Stadium by the banks of the Yarra River, is likely to be reasonably well populated when the match kicks off on Sunday evening, local time.

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Authoritarian powers like those driving the old age were eager to gain ground in the modern world that had cast them aside.

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