Ever since Basil Fawlty moaned about "the British Leyland Concerto in four movements, all of them slow with a four-hour tea break in between", the car industry has been an emblem of national decline.

自从巴兹尔·弗尔蒂抱怨“英国利兰协奏曲分为四部分，每部分之间都因四小时的间隔而变慢”(利兰是英国的一个汽车公司，协奏曲为其中的一个汽车品牌)，汽车工业就成为英国衰退的一个象征。

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If you run hard every day, you will just continually break your muscles down, and improvement will be slow and difficult -and it could lead to burnout or injury.

如果你每天都跑到精疲力尽，你会中断肌肉的生长，提高肌肉将是更慢更难的事情，甚至肌肉会因此受到伤害。

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If you break up the flow, it will slow you down considerably.

如果你打破了它，阅读速度就会慢很多。

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"But we have inputted our folks in there, creating a fire break around the area to try to slow that fire."

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The balance of payments and exchange rates were making news, and the slow break-up of the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange rate system was under way.

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There is a way to break the stranglehold of complexity: Slow down to power up.

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The U.S. solar market continued its record-setting pace in the second quarter, but amid the boom are signs of a slow down in the break-neck growth of recent years, according to a report released Monday.

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