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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It is arguable that this was not as grave a handicap as it might appear.

有证据证明，这一残障不像看上去那么严重。

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Spending on health is half as much again as it was in 1998.

卫生保健方面的开销比1998年增长了一半。

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September fifteenth was chosen as the starting date because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries.

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The time was in the early 70s, so factory farming was not well-known, was not as dominated as it is today, but it still existed.

那时是70年代早期，工厂化养殖并不为很多人所知,也不如今天这样占主导地位，但当时已经出现了这种方式。

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Well you can read the story, it's in Numbers 20, the incident is described there. But the answer is still not entirely clear, it's not clear what Moses did that was so bad as to deserve this punishment.

你们可以阅读这个故事，在民数记20，讲述了这个事件,然而答案却仍然不是完全清楚的，摩西究竟做了什么,坏事才遭受这样的惩罚，还不完全清楚。

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However, his ability to learn from his mistakes and make the third act of his career as successful as it was is truly inspiring.

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"It is as it was, " the sources quoted the pope as saying.

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Pope John Paul saw the movie in December and told his longtime Polish secretary Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, "It is as it was, " meaning he considered it an authentic portrayal of Gospel accounts, a Vatican source told Reuters.

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