Columbus's signal accomplishment was, in the phrase of the historian Alfred W. Crosby, to reknit the seams of Pangaea.

按照历史学家阿尔弗雷德·W·克罗斯比的说法就是，哥伦布最非凡的成就在于将原始大陆的缝隙重新弥合。

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It has put itself (in the phrase of a Coca-Cola executive with a literary bent) "always within an arm's length of desire."

它这样形容自己：「渴望，总在一个手臂的距离之内」（这句话来自爱好文学的可口可乐执行官）。

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If he gets them through, he will have demonstrated to the rest of the world that Japan is not, in the phrase of one observer, just a fly waiting for a windscreen.

如果他挺过来了，以一个观察者的视角，他将会向全世界证明日本不是仅仅一个等待挡风玻璃的苍蝇。

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And with the gift, novelty and souvenir industry generating billions of dollars in revenue each year, marketing Olympic memories gives a whole new meaning to the phrase go for the gold.

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We can also see in this phrase "in the Beginning" - we can see it applying to the end of the preceding clause, "That Shepherd who first taught the chosen Seed / in the Beginning."

太初“一词“,还修饰了后面跟着的从句，“那个牧羊人，最初向您的选民宣讲“

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Now we began this poem with the sense of the dreary repetitiveness in that opening phrase, "Yet once more," but here very close to the poem's end we have a vision of an end to all those fruitless exercises of repetition.

现在我们带着首句，“然而再一次的“里,沉闷的重复感开始读这首诗“,但是在诗的最后我们有一种,所有徒劳的重复行为都结束了的感觉。

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The tribunal drew an inference of discrimination from the use in the recruitment advertisement of the phrase "youthful enthusiasm".

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Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, who is cursed, laid to rest for two hundred years, then sprung from his coffin in 1972 the cue for a stream of period gags, as the highfalutin vampire with the lordly turn of phrase gets stuck in the era of the lava lamp.

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In the bitter phrase of Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom he sparred for years, he preferred to view men like ants.

ECONOMIST: Claude L��vi-Strauss