Several automakers introduced new models. And a pay hike announced by the government for its employees with retrospective effect put money in the hands of many people.

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Milton's constructing -- it's a remarkable and impossible strategy here, and it's one we can call a strategy of retrospective anticipation Of course, this retrospective anticipation can only be a fiction.

弥尔顿用了--这种手法很奇妙而且不可能，我们可以称之为返顾预测的手法,这是一种。。。，当然，，and，it’s，a，type，of…,返顾预测是不可能的。

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