However, despite the difficulties of maintaining long-term romantic relationships in modern times, this is also a flourishing time for love, even a time of its Renaissance.

然而，尽管在摩登时代，维持天长地久的浪漫关系困难重重，但这也是爱情蓬勃繁荣的时代，甚至是爱情的‘文艺复兴期’。

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Despite its difficulties at home, it is strong in most big markets abroad, especially China, which within a few years will be the world's largest.

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Bipartisan congressional supporters, civilian defense analysts and, of course, the U.S. Marine Corps deserve no small measure of credit for keeping the program alive during its periodic developmental difficulties and despite successive efforts to slow down or terminate the program outright.

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Tony Blair once tried (unsuccessfully) to merge the Wales office with its Scottish and Northern Irish counterparts and periodically stories surface that merger is back on the agenda, despite the political difficulties involved.

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