But for most of us, having no fingerprints would be a nightmare, causing problems at border control and when proving our identity.

但对于我们大多数人来说，没有指纹将会是一场噩梦。会给边境管制带来麻烦，会很难证明身份。

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A MONTH of tramping around Europe has given your correspondent a chance to see how effective the new e-passports are at border crossings.

本刊记者漫游欧洲一月，借机了解了一下新的电子护照在边境口岸的使用效果。

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The two main justifications for adding chips to passports are that they improve security at border crossings and speed up immigration procedures.

有两个主要说辞支持在护照中加入芯片：提高边境口岸的安全性与加快入境手续办理。

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The program pays for water research at universities that border either the oceans or the Great Lakes.

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And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

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And when she was a very old lady, she led a demonstration to try to protect her little part of France on the Italian border from being exploited by tourism, more about that at the end, and with her tractor she led this demonstration.

等她老了的时候,她发起一个反对在她家那片,意大利边境上的法国领土上开发旅游业的游行,到最后还有其他别的,她开着拖拉机领导了这次游行

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Since then, ports have been upgraded, roads tarred, and red-tape at border crossings trimmed.

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More systematic monitoring at border crossing and airports such as mouth swabs has been proposed.

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About 80 staff remain at Border Precision Engineering after the management takeover.

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