Isabel put her magazine down and said in a neutral voice, "You're very late, darling."

伊莎贝尔放下她的杂志,以不动声色的口吻说，“亲爱的，你太晚了”。

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All the time Stephen was lying face down and unconscious in the bathtub.

斯蒂芬始终面朝下趴在浴缸里，不省人事。

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The dam broke down and in result the land was flooded.

大坝倒塌了， 土地因而被淹。

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And once he said: "Four-fifths of our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still."

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Here I paused in my fiction to shield my eyes and stanch the arrow-straight tracks clawed down my cheek.

飞箭在我脸上笔直地犁出了一条伤口，我停止了幻想,遮住眼睛，赶忙去止血。

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We had a similar, even higher price-to-earnings ratio of about forty-six at the peak in 2000 and it corrected way down.

000年时我们的市盈率甚至更高,达到了46,后来经过修正降低了

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If parents are lucky, they might get away for a dinner or drink on their own, but even Disney's Pleasure Island - a Vegas-like strip of nightclubs and over-21 entertainment - was shut down in 2008 and has been reinvented to have a more family-friendly focus, with shops and restaurants instead of nightclubs.

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After a sharp runup in the early 1990s, shares skidded sideways from 1993 to 1995 amid concerns about Enron's Dabhol power plant in India--which has since shut down--and a disastrous gas-purchase contract in the North Sea.

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