Its 2008 results were riddled with one-off items, but the bank still made an annual pre-tax profit of over $9 billion in a year when most peers made losses.

汇丰银行08年财报上充斥着非经常项目，但是汇丰仍旧创造了90亿美金的年度税前利润，而其多数同行则在这年中频频报损。

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BlockingQueue neatly solves the problem of how to "hand off" items gathered by one thread to another thread for processing, without explicit concern for synchronization issues.

BlockingQueue干净利落地解决了如何将一个线程收集的项“传递”给另一线程用于处理的问题，无需考虑同步问题。

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One telltale sign: the new Millionaire Fair, where vendors come to show off big-ticket items like helicopters, jewel-encrusted pencils and baby bottles made of gold.

一个有力的论据就是，一次奢侈品展会中，展商展出了诸如直升飞机、镶钻的铅笔和黄金制成的奶瓶。

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However, the figure was boosted by big one-off items, including the purchase and sale of television networks.

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There was also a variety of one-off items, including a set of stocks which celebrities including Alice Cooper, Jonathan Ross, One Direction and Michael Douglas have posed in.

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But if Discover catches on, it could transform eBay's massive collection of one-off, unusual items into an advantage against more mainstream competitors like Amazon, he says.

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