Fears are now being voiced that the planned construction of an oil pipeline across the lake's bottom might revive pollution and cause the fish population to decline again.

现在有人担心，计划修建的穿越湖底的输油管道可能会重新造成污染，导致鱼类数量再次下降。

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In the absence of concerted action to save water, the combination of population growth and climate change (bottom) will create scarcity far and wide.

若不加以协同动作来拯救水资源，人口增长和气候改变将会使更多的地方出现水源紧缺。

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Just as the bottom 90% of the population have lagged far behind the top 10%, most of those in the top 10% have trailed the elite 1%.

就在90%处于底层的人收入远远落后于顶层的10%的时候，这顶层10%的人中，大部分人的收入都落后于1%的精英。

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The court heard she was in the bottom 1% of the population in terms of intellectual function.

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The bottom line: A large population, a large labor force, and a dose of markets may be the necessary condition for leading the global economy.

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Thus the ratio between the incomes of the top fifth of the population and the bottom fifth has risen pretty steadily, to about 22:1, since the early 1980s.

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