This may not come as that big of a surprise, considering what TIME's Global Spin blog reported back in August.

如果回想到《时代周刊》的全球连线博客(Global Spin blog)在八月份的报道，这并不让人多么惊讶。

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When the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first working draft of XHTML 2.0 on 5 August 2002, the major surprise was that, unlike its predecessors, it was not backward compatible.

当万维网联盟(World Wide Web Consortium (W3C))于2002年8月5日发布XHTML 2.0的第一个工作草案时，最让人吃惊的是：与其先前的版本不同，它不是向后兼容的。

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WITH an election due on August 30th, an animated cartoon has proved a surprise Internet hit in Japan.

在日本8月30日大选之际，一部出奇制胜的动画片在其国内互联网上播出，颇具讽刺意味。

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According to the CDC report, during the August 19 surprise visit, inspectors found brown liquid dripping on clean dishes, refrigerators out of order, improper installation of anti-entrapment drain covers in pools posing a possible danger to swimmers, faulty dishwashers that managers allegedly failed to do anything about until inspectors arrived and water from a broken ice machine leaking onto the pool deck.

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That August Zhukov sprang his surprise offensive against the Japanese, routing them even though their forces were slightly larger.

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Had the August data been a pleasant surprise, the outlook on Fed action would have been blurry.

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