Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.

钢罐是在四十年代的某个时候开始使用的。

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In the forties came the nakba unleashed by Israel in Palestine.

二十世纪四十年代，以色列在巴勒斯坦带来了浩劫(nakba)。

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I remember when Charley Wilson”—the president of G.M. in the forties and fifties—“said, What’s good for G.M. is good for America.

我记得通用汽车公司的总裁查理·威尔森在他四十岁到五十岁期间曾经说过，对通用好，也就意味着对美国好。

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In the forties, Puerto Ricans arrived.

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So this is, in effect, the backdrop in which in the American academy--influenced, - as we'll now see, by certain trends in the British academy-- arose in the thirties and in the forties.

所以实际上,这就是当时美国学术界，受英国学术界影响-,在三四十年代崛起的背景。

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James Henry Hammond starts writing in the forties and into the fifties and he takes it much further, and he writes over and over and over again that, said James Henry Hammond, is that too damn many northerners didn't understand it is the way of the world as it is, and they ought to stop talking about the world as it ought to be.

詹姆斯.亨利.哈蒙德不惑之年才开始写作,到了五十岁仍笔耕不辍,他不停地写作,不停地著书,詹姆斯·亨利·哈蒙德说道,大多数北方人不能明白,这就是世界的本原,他们应该停止有关世界本源的讨论

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All this gets me to Amazon, where initially I performed my grunt work years ago when it ticked in the forties.

FORBES: Amazon! My Pricey Gut Play

All that the movie aspires to be is a speedy, bubbly screwball-comedy whodunit something like a Bob Hope vehicle from the forties.

NEWYORKER: Manhattan Murder Mystery

Temperatures would drop from the forties into the single digits overnight, and high winds would drive the windchill well below zero, the service advised.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Dog Days'