In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.

在欧洲，税收占汽油零售价的比例高达五分之四，因此，即使是原油价格发生了相当大的波动，对油品价格的影响也比过去要更轻微。

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Technology has changed the nature of the billboard business, making it a more effective medium than in the past.

科技改变了广告牌行业的性质，使其成为比过去更有效的媒介。

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Dear Annie: One of my goals in the coming year is to spend more time with my wife and kids, whom I've badly neglected over the past few months because of work.

亲爱的安妮：我明年的目标之一就是想花更多的时间和我的妻子和小孩呆在一起，而过去的几个月我因为工作严重忽略了他们。

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Gannett,the nation's largest newspaper publisher, has cut more than one-fifth of its jobs in the past two years.

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Well, I mentioned that this was just sort of a more modern observation of one that had been made in the past.

我提到过这只是过去所做的观察里,较为先进的一个

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But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

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This weekend, at a party conference in Verona, Mr Fini will shrug off more of the past.

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The American city of the future is going to look a little bit more like the American city of the past, more closely centered on a high density downtown with mass transit increasingly used to get workers in and out.

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Touching up the landscape, staffing it with a grinning cast of extras in Confederate uniform and letting off daily volleys of thunderflashes would be crude and misleading, said a crew of historians and culture vultures: the empty fields, with their slight bumps and dips, speak more tellingly of the past than models.

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