Few contests in the recent history of boxing have been as thrilling.

在近期拳击史上没有几场比赛曾如此惊心动魄。

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Yet it is a substantial achievement to beat one of the most successful coalitions in the recent history of Latin America.

然而能够成功击败拉丁美洲近些年来最成功的同盟仍然是一个重大的成就。

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If spinning succeeded on that same lock object in the recent history and the thread holding the lock is running, then spinning is likely to succeed again.

如果在同一个锁对象上，自旋刚刚成功过，并且持有锁的线程正在运行中，那么自旋很有可能再次成功。

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Simmons helped identify one of the highest-ranking Cuban spies in recent history, Ana Belen Montes who worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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And Athens was until only fairly recent times in human history the most famous democracy that ever existed. I say fairly recent times until you know the American democracy.

而雅典是直到近期为止,一直是人类历史上曾存在过,最著名的民主之城，我所谓的近期,当然是指在美国民主出现之前。

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"Considering the recent Russian attempts to re-write history, for example by suggesting Polish complicity in German aggression, we could expect Russians to publish their own estimates of Soviet war victims shortly,".

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Back in the 1990s, Gingrich made himself one of the most disliked figures in the recent history of American politics.

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The inquiry into Ms Lawrence's disappearance was the largest in the recent history of North Yorkshire Police, but the force scaled down the investigation after 16 months in July 2010.

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"Those responsible for the greatest strategic blunder in the recent history of American foreign policy have ignored useful debate in favor of making false charges about flip-flops and surrender, " he wrote.

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