The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences but they would certainly cost the taxpayers much money.

死刑的替代选择是较长的刑期，但这肯定会耗费纳税人很多钱。

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But in the long run, too much specialization doesn't pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval.

但从长远来看，过多的专业化并不会带来回报。商业界已经有了大量的工商管理学硕士（MBA），他们不再将学位视为一种能自动认可的标志。

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I'm always thinking about it—but we couldn't go on like this much longer.

我一直在想这件事——但是我们不能再这样下去了。

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But by the late nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, those countries no longer had much money to help farmers.

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It's different in other countries; in Europe, they've had universal banking, which allowed banks to offer insurance for a much longer time but in the U.S.

这与其他国家是不同的,在欧洲,那里有综合银行,它们提供保险服务已经有很长一段时日了,但是在美国

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But it doesn't actually cost as much energy as you might think, because in this s orbital here we have a paired electron situation where we're moving up to a p orbital where the electron is no longer paired, so it won't feel quite as much electron repulsion, but nonetheless, this is going to cost us energy.

但它消耗的并没有,你们想象的那么多,因为s轨道里我们电子是配对的,当我们把，电子移到p轨道,电子不再配对，所以它不会感受到那么多的电子排斥，但尽管如此，这个过程还是要消耗能量的。

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But how much longer it will be allowed to keep trying remains in doubt.

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But how much longer can the PBoC soak up all that cash?

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The Surface RT charger is a 24 watt device which will work with the Pro, but takes much longer to reach a full charge.

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