He dug and he dug till the hole was as big as himself, but no money was there.

他挖啊挖啊，直到挖的那个洞和他自己一样大，但是里面没有钱。

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There are no hard and fast rules, but rather traditional guidelines as to who pays for what.

关于谁来支付什么费用并没有一定要遵守的规定，只有传统的准则。

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I felt I was no longer being treated as a person but as a statistic.

我感觉我不再被看作人，而被看作一个统计数字了。

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The Great Recession gave some mothers no choice but to work, as job cuts hit hard at men.

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I don't think that's quite true, but there's a general feeling that, as Matthew Arnold said, Wordsworth has no style.

虽然我不认为那一定正确，但是普遍认为，就像马修阿诺德说的，华兹华斯没有固定的风格。

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It seemed to me as though no one would ever quote Horace again, as anything but a lie. Of course that's not the case.

对我而言尽管没有人会再援引贺拉斯，除了这个谎话，当然那不能说明什么。

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Foster, like his former partner Richard Rogers (who has a peerage, but no Pritzker as yet), is a pivotal figure in British architecture.

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He has said Elsa was moved from Sharm El Sheikh to Cairo by Elsa's grandmother, but no information as to her exact whereabouts has been provided.

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Previously, Microsoft and Research in Motion had a stronghold on the enterprise market, but no longer as professionals go mobile with the iPad and want alternatives to the Blackberry.

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