在核装置爆炸之前，法国总统雅克·希拉克曾表示，法国进行的核试验可能少于原计划的8次。

Before the nuclear device was exploded, the French President Jacques Chirac said his country might carry out fewer than the eight tests originally planned.

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议会发言人昨日表示，伊拉克立法者预计将在周三之前就一项安全协议进行投票，该协议将使美军在伊拉克驻扎至2011年底。

Iraqi lawmakers are expected to vote on a security agreement by Wednesday, which will keep the US troops here until the end of 2011, the parliament's speaker said yesterday.

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他们期望在更多的人质被释放之前有互惠的表示。

They expected a reciprocal gesture before more hostages could be freed.

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But,the history of Royalism is not--it goes beyond that, and there was a strong Royalist movement, as I've already suggested, and it wasn't just people looking backwards.

但是君主主义者们克服了这点,发起了一场强有力的保皇主义运动,就如我之前表示的,这不仅仅是人们在追溯过去

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But mathematically, we've mentioned this before, log N or really to be precise, log base 2 of N, is the way you express this mathematically.

但从数学上说，之前我们已经提到过了，准确地说是log，N，以2为底N的对数，这就是它在数学上的表示。

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