Today cards are often given with a present, even when people can express their wishes face to face. In recent times e-cards have also become popular.

今天，即使是能面对面表达祝福的时候，人们通常也会在礼物上附上卡片。在最近的时代，电子贺卡也变得流行。

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Unfortunately, most of the early popular African-American writers have been all but forgotten in modern times until now.

不幸的是，在此之前，早期受欢迎的大部分非裔美国作家在现代都几乎被遗忘了。

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It is still going today but has become less popular in recent times.

它今天仍然在流行，但在最近变得不那么流行了。

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Vampires have held an important place in the popular imagination since ancient times.

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In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.

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Other times they perform in popular bars.

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This is the part where I am obnoxiously supposed to tell you that if a guy like Tony Parker played in a city like New York, he would be five times as popular and be on the cover of GQ three times a year and own an underwater disco restaurant with Mario Batali and Robert De Niro.

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It was almost four times more popular that the three other tablets they looked for.

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In other words, puts were more than three times as popular as calls yesterday in the options pits.

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