All this was compatible with older devices so long as there was only one authoritative timekeeper; but with urban growth and the multiplication of time signals, discrepancy brought discord and strife.

所有这些都与旧的设备兼容，只要只有一个权威的计时器；但随着城市的发展和时间信号的倍增，报时的差异导致了不和与冲突。

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As he swam he had but one thought: Hook or me this time.

他游泳的时候只有一个念头：这次不是胡克，就是我。

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They find themselves surrounded, and Paris is one-third the size of London at this same time, or at any other time, but it has a huge circumference.

他们发现自己被包围了，而巴黎的面积相当于当时或其他任何时候伦敦的三分之一，但它的周长很大。

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But one difference this time is that many newspaper companies are heavily in debt from buying other newspapers.

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But just to hammer home this point, if I could, we have time for one awkward demonstration.

但是这个时候为了再三强调到彻底的了解，如果可以的话，我们还有时间做一个不太好的示范。

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They are computationally challenged, meaning, at the time they were invented, they were perfectly good sorting algorithms, there are better ones, we're going to see a much better one next time around, but this is a good way to just start thinking about how to do the algorithm, or how to do the sort.

他们是相当棒的排序算法，是有更好的算法，我们下一次,就会看一个更好的，但是开始想想,如何完成算法，或者说是如何排序,是一个好的学习方法,恩，再试试吧,如何来排序呢？

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But this one time, at least, I think the cynicism is unwarranted, that this move does mean change is coming for the yuan.

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But this time no one complained.

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But one question this time is whether factions and candidates who fare badly at the ballot box will accept the result as free and fair, as they generally did when the Americans and other coalition forces were around in the background.

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