However, communications being what they were in the days when news traveled by foot, many people did not receive the news for several years.

不过，步行传递信息是那时的主要沟通方式，很多人好几年都还没收到这个消息。

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Gone were the days of me bossing her around and telling her what she should do with her life.

过去我对她呼来唤去，告诉她生活应该怎样过的日子已经一去不回了。

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The only pattern I noticed was what you’d expect, that the jobs happened on our busiest days, when any of us were hard-pressed just to keep our fingers out of spinning fans.

我所观察到的唯一规律，就是这些都发生在我们工作最繁忙的日子里。 每次遇到这种时候，我们三个就都捉襟见肘了，恨不得多生两只手。

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The closures came in what the government said were the opening days of new inspections of all 5, 000 garment factories in Bangladesh.

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Sarnoff and Paley were to the early days television what Gates and Jobs were to become to the early years of personal computing.

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That will tell astronomers a lot, they hope, about what the original early days of the solar system were like.

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