When they returned in the mid-'40's, tastes had shifted to movies,television, and livelier night spots.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

So, then we go to thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium, and this is really about chemical reactions -- weather a reaction will go, will it be spontaneous, if there an equilibrium, what direction will the reaction be shifted in.

然后我们要讲到热力学和化学平衡,这都和化学反应有关，一个反应是否能发生,是不是能自发反应，如果存在化学平衡，它会朝什么方向移动。

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Who knows? Maybe we'll try on some other occasion, but for the moment I think you can see that in making remarks of this kind about a text one has shifted the attention from meaning to structure.

我们也许会在以后讲到它，谁知道呢，但是我想你们应该已经看出来,我们的重点已经从内容,转移到了形式。

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The strikes have mainly hit foreign companies. This is causing problems for those manufacturers that shifted production to China to take advantage of lower labor costs and to cash in on the potential consumer market.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The calorie density has changed because food is processed, so the calories in the fat and the sugar that can get squeezed into things made possible by technological changes has shifted things a lot.

食品经过加工,热量密度发生了变化,添加到食品中的脂肪和糖类,其卡路里含量可通过技术手段进行调整,进而造成很大不同

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U.S.officials have long said they believe al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his top commanders shifted their base of operation from Afghanistan to Pakistan's largely autonomous tribal regions after coalition forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

So, you have this tremendous continuity between the sort of the honor code that was so dominant in the Homeric world, which has now been shifted to the larger unit, which is the polis.

现在你对荣耀法则的变迁应当有所了解了,荷马时期的主流是个人英雄主义,逐渐演变成现在对更广泛的集体,也就是对城邦的担当

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