Had Iberia fallen to one of BA's European rivals, and its position would have been badly weakened.

假使伊比利亚成为英航的欧洲对手之一，它的地位将会被严重削弱。

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In the past, the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate.

过去，这个地区受到令人生畏的地理条件和极端的天气状况的保护。

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The relationship had been important to me and its loss left me feeling sad and empty.

这种关系对我一直都很重要，失去它让我感到难过而空虚。

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In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health.

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And I have purposely made the arrow shorter to indicate that it has been slowed because we are going to argue its mass didn't change, so the only way to change its energy is to change its velocity.

我已经故意将这个箭头弄短,用来象征它变慢了,因为我们将证明它的质量没有变，只有它的能量改变了,也就是它的速度变了。

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And it may well be that no poem has ever been since Paradise Lost published with line numbers in its very first edition.

只有《失乐园》首次印刷的时候把行数印上,之后的诗歌都没被这么出版过。

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Mr. MICHAEL CHERTOFF (United States Secretary of Homeland Security): And its only been a couple of days since we've had the takedown.

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The recent battle between the National Football League and its referees has been heated and highly publicized.

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Yet as a leading global maker of flavor and fragrance chemicals used in producing perfumes, food, pharmaceuticals, beverages and even detergents, its businesses have been pulling ahead and its stock on the rise since 2008.

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