The same evening, as you walked up the canyon into the hills, the red earth was damp under your feet, soft, yielding, and full of promise.

同一天的傍晚，当你走上峡谷、走进群山，潮湿的红土在你脚下，细腻柔软，充满了希望。

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Companies around the world will have to change the way acquisition costs are handled under new accounting rules - a move that will hit profits and could damp the urge for mergers.

根据新的会计规定，全球企业将不得不修改对并购成本的会计处理方法，此举将影响公司利润，同时可能打击企业的并购愿望。

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Cold damp air brought in the New Year under a blanket of fog.

厚厚的一层雾伴着阴冷潮湿的空气迎来了新的一年。

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But the ground felt damp and cold under his knees and a whiff of sulfurous air stung his lungs and the cold sun playing on his skin seemed to stir the cigarette burns to pain, and the pain brought home to him that what had happened, and what was about to happen, were no dream.

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Another woman, Intisar, wordlessly pulls the base of the tent out to show me how damp the gravel is under the tent.

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It was dark, out on the narrow lane that ran past the sawmills, dark and very green, the boundary wall a dim colony of moss and ferns, the shadows under the trees damp and still.

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