The author acknowledges that after nine years of large-scale U.S.military involvement in the Middle East, and with the nation's economic difficulties bearing down on them, many Americans feel the temptation to pull the U.S.strong horse out of the region.

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Of course, with large-scale industrialization, which begins in the middle of the eighteenth century, you'll see this dramatic shift up to the north.

当然,随着大规模的工业化,在十八世纪中期的兴起,你会发现北方的戏剧性转变

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They're not bad, bad, they're not nightmares, but most dreams are from a scale of one to ten with five and a half in the middle they're on the negative side.

说它们不好，并不是说它们是噩梦，如果用1到10来评分,5。5为中间分值,大部份梦都是在5。5分以下。

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