Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened by the event.

在每一次物种大灭绝后，都有一次突然的进化爆发，因为会有新物种出现来填补灭绝创造的生态位。

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When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity.

当公众舆论两极分化时，就像佛朗哥政权结束后那样，君主可以超越“纯粹的”政治，成为国家统一的精神“象征”。

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It was first developed for the US government as a long-range spy aircraft, but was abandoned following budget cutbacks.

它最初是为美国政府研制的远程间谍飞机，但在预算削减后被放弃。

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Bollywood has a massive fan following, not only in India, but in many Asian countries such as Indonesia,Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Vacillation." The poem was written following a series of poems called the "Crazy Jane" poems, written as a kind of summary of them, a kind of resolution of the debates that go on in them.

踌躇一诗写于系列诗,疯狂的珍妮之后，作为对这一系列诗的总结，作为对其中的争论的解决方式。

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I think the simplest way to understand Modigliani-Miller proposition is the following: imagine that we, as a board, decided to pay a dividend of $5 a share.

理解莫迪利阿尼和米勒命题,最简单的方式是,假设我们构成了一个董事会,决定以每股5美元的比例发放股利

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Last month the National Rifle Association called on communities to arm teachers or place armed guards in schools as a solution following a Newtown, Connecticut, shooting spree in which a 20-year-old gunman killed seven adults and 20 children at an elementary school.

CNN: Teacher talks armed student into giving up, police say

As a correspondent following Secretary of State James A. Baker, Mossberg found himself virtually living on airplanes.

NEWYORKER: Critical Mass

Man is as much a rule-following animal as a purpose-seeking one.

FORBES: The Order of Public Reason