In a million words written over 20 years, he captured the full range of human emotions and conflicts with a precision that remains sharp today.

在20多年的写作生涯中，他用100万字的篇幅捕捉到了人类情感和冲突的方方面面，其文字的精确度在今天依然敏锐。

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Italy, which has a much weaker tradition of immigration, has witnessed a sharp increase in immigration in recent years.

意大利的移民传统要弱得多，但近年来移民人数急剧增加。

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Scientists have dated sharp-edged flakes of stone found in the fine-grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago.

科学家们已经确定，在埃塞俄比亚阿法尔地区干燥河床的细颗粒沉积物中发现的具有锋利边缘的石片存在于252万至260万年前。

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But a few years later, the high sharp voice of Hank Williams would cut like a knife through the music world.

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Agriculture Report. Three years ago,a study of overfishing led to sharp debate.

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The UN said last week that opium-poppy production has begun to rise again in Myanmar after six years of sharp declines.

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Then there were the piles of four-page inserts that the Philadelphia Inquirer brought to the confab, which boasted of its success in ending three straight years of sharp declines in average daily circulation by growing circulation an exceedingly modest 2, 136 daily papers during the previous six months.

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Boarding may never actually become trendy, least of all the full-time sort, but advocates of the system hope that innovation will at least arrest the sharp decline of recent years.

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