Regular expressions are ideal to extract concepts like phone or credit card numbers, addresses, dates, etc..

正则表达式很适合提取电话号码、信用卡号码、地址、日期等概念。

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Everything was signed and sealed, but we kept putting things off like the dates, various letters of credit and things that should have been sent, but nothing ever happened.

每一个项目都有合约，但是我们还是将日期等事项延期，各种各样的信用证本应该寄达，但是他们什么都没做。

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He picked up credit card Numbers, names and expiration dates for random passersby, none of whom he actually touched.

工作人员随机从路人的信用卡中选取信用卡号、姓名和有效日期，这一切都在对方毫不察觉的情况下进行的，根本不用接触对方的信用卡。

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