In Rome,where some in line were greeted with espressos and juggling clowns, a man who identified himself as Vincenzo, said he was looking for an all-purpose computer.

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There are all kinds of different boxes or the purpose for those boxes are different.

搜索框的功能不尽相同,因为这些搜索框的目的也不同。

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It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.

顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里

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