Resisting automation is futile: it is as inevitable as industrialization was before it.

抵制自动化是徒劳的：它就像之前的工业化一样不可避免。

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Beijing Opera is not as popular as it was before.

京剧不像以前那么受欢迎了。

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His secretary acts as a gatekeeper, reading all mail before it reaches her boss.

老板的秘书负责把关，所有邮件都由她先过目再呈送给他。

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So Elvis was just as popular after his military service as he was before it.

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We can never just have it there before us or, as I say, if we can--if we can--it's a very, very difficult act of concentration.

我们永远不能只面对着它，或者，要我来说，如果我们可以的话，那将需要高度集中注意力，这是很难的。

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It's going to be the same temperature V+dV as before but the volume is V plus dV now.

将升温到跟路径1的结果一样,但是现在的体积是。

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Their value was always acceleration, which is as valid in a combustion-engine world as it was before it.

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Brazil is soon to make a real choice whether to give markets more breathing room, as Chile did before it and as others in Latin America have been doing.

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We saw similar optimism around the PlayBook and as it did before, it again appears shortsighted.

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