I am glad to say that I have returned to Shanghai, and I am glad to say that I have had the hard experience of how it was before The Times of Champagne and Caviar.

我很高兴地说，我回到了上海，我也很高兴地说，在没有香槟和鱼子酱的时代，我曾有过那么一段艰难的经历。本文作者现居上海，为电视节目主持人。

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The telephone rang three times before I heard a click and then her recorded voice.

电话响了3次后我听到了咔嗒一声响，然后是她的录音留言。

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He has read the books many times before.

之前他已经看过这些书很多遍了。

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The group had been nominated seven times before it was finally honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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it's not as good as helping debug, sorry, that's the wrong way of saying it's not as good at catching some things before you run them, it is easier at some times in debugging as you go along on the fly.

它在帮助我们调试方面可能不是太优秀，对不起，这么说有点不正确,它在运行前捕捉错误,可能不是那么优秀，可能边运行边调试,会更容易一些。

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Now, at this point I have to just confess, as I've confessed at other times before, the three is a claim about empirical science.

在这一点上我必须承认,像我之前承认过的那样,前提三是关于实证科学的

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He was fired by a Sacramento television station owned by Tribune two months before the Times' website was hacked.

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It seemed that the story was not an exclusive, it had run on a French soccer website called Les Cahiers du Football a couple of days before the Times went into overdrive.

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Dr Mahathir's motives in seeking an early poll are not hard to grasp: with the economy in a bad way, he wants a fresh mandate before the difficult times ahead.

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