As motorists scrambled for a place in line, in some states matching their license plates to the date on an odd-or-even system, the era of energy affluence ended.

人们驾车在等候加油的长龙里争抢位置，一些州也根据车牌号实行了单双号出行的规定，这一切都表明、能源富足的时代已经结束了。

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What's considered typical or proper social conduct in one country may be regard as odd, improper or even rude in the other.

在一个国家中被认为是典型或适当的社会行为，在另一个国家中可能被视为古怪，不当甚至粗鲁的行为。

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In the set of natural numbers, every number is either odd or even.

在自然数的集合里，每个数字不是奇数就是偶数。

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In contrast, the present generation of Britons, which presumably has never committed adultery, divorce, bad parenting, tree-hugging, overspending or even the odd drag at a joint, delights to sit in judgment on the royals who have.

ECONOMIST: They just won't fold up their beds and slip away