By last fall, it was too late. The government, with Mr.

到去年秋天的时候一切已经为时已晚。

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Last year's profits were swelled by a fall in production costs.

去年因生产成本下降，利润有所增加。

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Last week saw most major stock markets fall by a record 20 percent or more.

上星期，大多数主要股票市场超记录地下跌20%，或更多。

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The overseas trip is the first by Secretary of State since she fractured her elbow in a fall last month, and it includes an ambitious agenda in India, where she aims to solidify a strategic partnership begun with the 2005 U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord.

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By last fall, NBC could boast for the first time in a decade that it was drawing the most viewers in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic prized by advertisers.

WSJ: Comcast doubles down on TV in $16.7B deal for NBCU

By last fall, NBC could boast that it was drawing the most viewers in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic prized by advertisers for the first time in a decade.

WSJ: Broadcasting pioneer NBC has long, storied history

By the fall last year, prosecutors and the FBI were ramping up their insider-trading investigation.

WSJ: They Were Best of Friends, Until the Feds Showed Up