On January 24, Pope Benedict lifted the excommunication of British-born Richard Williamson and three other bishops to try to heal a 20-year-old rift that began when they were thrown out of the Church for being ordained without the permission of Pope John Paul II.

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You can look at it with those poems in mind where Yeats imagines a new world coming into being, ushered in through the blood of the old.

你们可以回忆一下那两首诗,其中叶芝想象了一个新的世界，那从旧世界鲜血里开辟。

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Now, let's go back to a theory which has at least got the virtue of being very old, although hardly anybody believes it anymore.

现在,让我们再回去看一个理论,它的优势在于非常古老,虽然已经没人再相信它

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Of the savings institutions, there were only 1,500; that's probably going down further because a lot of these old savings banks are being converted into commercial banks.

至于储蓄机构,只有1500个,现在可能就更少了,因为很多这类古老的储蓄银行,都逐渐被改造成了商业银行

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When the Swedes get into the act, Gustavus Adolphus brings this huge old Swedish army down and they do a lot of damage, too, and people are absolutely being devastated.

当瑞典人加入战局时,瑞典国王阿道夫率领庞大,且久经战阵的军队南下,他们给中欧造成了巨大的破坏,人民饱受战争之苦

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