The university has thus met its burden of showing that the admissions policy it used was narrowly tailored.
因此，这所大学已经履行了它的责任，表明它所采用的招生政策是勉强的。
My car's not as reliable as it used to be.
我的车不像过去那样靠得住了。
The academy is far more inclusive now than it used to be.
该学院如今比过去更为兼收并蓄。
It used to be a private, exclusive club, and now it's open to all New Yorkers.
它曾是一家高档的私人俱乐部，而现在它对所有纽约人开放。
Our city is cleaner than it used to be.
我们的城市比以前干净了。
It used to be old, but now many new buildings have appeared.
它以前很古老，但如今有了许多新建筑。
It used 60% less cement (水泥) than a man-made house.
它比人造的房子少用了60%的水泥。
Now, however, the sea ice is becoming water earlier than it used to.
然而，现在海冰比以前更早地融化。
Although I still make lots of mistakes, it doesn't worry me as it used to.
虽然我仍然会犯很多错误，但它不再像过去那样困扰我了。
We choose this hotel because the price for a night here is down to $20, half of what it used to charge.
我们选择这家酒店是因为这里一晚的价格已经降到了20美元，是以前价格的一半。
It used to be that you could drive for miles here without seeing another person, but now there are houses and people everywhere.
以前你可能在这里开了几英里，都没见过别人，但现在到处都是房子和人。
It used to be that parents and teachers had set days and times for parent-teacher meetings, but there was little communication outside the meeting.
以前家长会的日期和时间都是家长和老师约定的，但家长会以外的交流很少。
It used to be so straightforward.
过去处理事情的流程直截了当。
Everything was placed exactly where it used to be before she left the laboratory.
在她离开实验室之前，她把每件东西都准确地放在它们原来的位置上。
It used to be a pound but because we were making a bit of a loss we have had to increase it by 50p.
以前是一英镑，但是因为我们亏损了一点，所以不得不增加了50便士。
The work is going from where it used to be 5 or 6 big companies in California, in San Francisco and LA.
这项工作是从加州、旧金山和洛杉矶的五六家大公司开始的，其过去也由这几家公司负责。
It used to be clear that the ruling classes had the wealth, authority and power while those underneath did not.
过去，统治阶级有财富、权力和势力是显而易见的，而下层阶级却没有。
It used to be that the second semester of International Banking was an elective, but now it says it's a required class.
以前，第二学期的国际银行学是选修课，但现在它变成了必修课。
Life is not as hard as it used to be, but many of the older Inuits hate modern life and want to go back to the old days.
生活不像以前那么艰难了，但是许多年老的因纽特人讨厌现代生活，想回到过去的日子去。
It used to be that a paper route or an after-school job at the local grocer was viewed as a rite of passage for young people.
过去对年轻人来说，找一份送报纸的兼职或者放学后前往本地杂货店打工，往往被视为人生必经阶段。
When you get a bagel, it used to be you'd get something this size, and now you get something that's really, really much bigger.
当你买百吉饼的时候，过去你会买到这么大的，而现在你买到的真的要大得多。
Thus, despite the increase in printer sales, the Ink Jet Division must be contributing less to the company's profits than it used to.
因此，尽管打印机的销量增加了，喷墨部门对公司利润的贡献一定比过去少。
To reduce the overall weight of the building, it used less concrete in the floors; that in turn enabled it to cut down on structural steel.
为了减少建筑的整体重量，它在楼层中使用了较少的混凝土；这反过来又减少了对结构钢的使用。
It used to take a fortnight to travel from London to Edingburgh by coach, however you can now travel many times around the world in that time.
过去，坐长途汽车从伦敦到爱丁堡需要两周的时间，但现在你可以在两周里多次环游世界。
For example, it used to take a bit of patience to put together the toys that children got in cereal boxes; now the toys come from the boxes whole.
例如，把孩子们从麦片盒里拿到的玩具组装起来需要一点耐心；玩具从盒子里拿出来时就是完整的。
It used to be teens would have their nose fixed during summer vacation or spring break, but now they want to go back to school with their splint on.
过去，青少年会在暑假或者春假期间整鼻子，但现在他们想带着夹板回到学校。
It used to be three kilometres but most people wanted to do a bit more than that so we lengthened it to five kilometres—we now go round the lake twice and that adds an extra two kilometres.
以前是3公里，但大多数人想多逛一下，所以我们把路程延长到5公里——现在我们绕湖两圈，这就比以前增加了2公里。
It used it to escape all censure.
它使用此权利逃避一切责难。
It used it to escape all censure.
它使用此权利逃避一切责难。
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