Britain's political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties - the Conservatives, now led by David Cameron, and Labor headed by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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Development of an artificial heart, again another example of Biomedical Engineering, is something that people have been trying to accomplish for decades now, and this is the closest that we've come and there are many advantages of this particular artificial heart.

人造心脏技术的发展,是生物医学工程的另一个例子,科学家们,试图在这二十年中去改进它,而这是最接近成功的一个实例,这枚人造心脏有很多优点

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None of us have seen a case of smallpox, it hasn't existed in the world for many decades now.

我们没人见过天花,在这个世界上它已经被消灭几十年了

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Now think of another product in American history that doubled every decade for four decades, and then imagine that that product became the country's, without question, absolute largest export.

思考下在美国历史中有没有另一种产品曾,有如此辉煌的成就,那么这个产品将毫无疑问地,成为美国最大的出口产品

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So now somebody can get an artificial hip and they can live for many decades with it and have almost full function of that hip over that period of time.

所以现在患者可以使用人造髋关节,再活上几十年,而且几乎和正常人没一点差别

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