"Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people, and Iraq's leaders must now make some hard choices necessary to resolve key political questions, to advance opportunity and to provide security for their towns and their cities,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

Advance this pointer-- this finger, to the next element of the list which is 4, make the comparison.

前移这个指示器--也就是这根手指，让它指向列表中的,下一个元素4，再做比较。

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The idea was that they would help advance the mortgage market by buying up mortgages from mortgage originators and therefore allowing them to make more mortgages.

其主旨就是通过,从抵押贷款的原始权益人手中,购买这些债权来促进市场的发展,那些原始权益人就可以去放更多的贷款

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So if you don't buy this book this week, I may be able to make the advance copy of the new edition available for some of you next week.

如果你这周不买,可能下周你们,就能买到新版的了

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We don't have to make up our minds in advance whether it was a real world or a completely fantastic one, but at least let's see if we can describe what world it looks like.

我们不必事先考虑这是一个,真实的抑或虚幻的世界,但至少要知道我们能否描述这个世界

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