The area has been mined for slate for centuries.

这个地区开采板岩有数百年了。

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In a comment piece on juicing hype in the US, Katy Waldman, a staff writer for Slate magazine, also declared that after days of research she still didn't know what a toxin was.

而美国《石板》杂志特约撰稿人凯迪迪·瓦尔德曼也在一篇探讨果汁排毒炒作的评论文章中指出，经过几天的研究过后，她还是没有弄清毒素是什么。

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Matt Yglesias even suggested in an article for Slate a few years ago that unlimited vacation is a sinister plot cooked up by the overlords to passive-aggressively force people to work more.

马特·伊格雷西亚斯前几年曾为Slate杂志撰文指出：无限假期就是一项邪恶计划，目的就是为了变相偷偷强迫人们做更多的工作。

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So, let me go had and let's swivel this around for just a moment so we have a blank slate and now what's really going on?

我把它旋转一下,这样就有一块空白了,到底发生了什么呢？

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Mr Thomas said the horses could not work quickly enough when demand for slate continued to grow.

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But she took a big risk, and was hired as a writer for slate.com, where she immediately felt at home.

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Spitzer has re-emerged gradually over the past six months, writing a column for Slate, granting a lengthy interview to Newsweek and appearing on television.

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