Though not the first to do so, Mr Rifkin argued prophetically that society was entering a new phase—one in which fewer and fewer workers would be needed to produce all the goods and services consumed.

虽然之前也有类似书籍出版，但Rifkin预言了社会正步入新的阶段--届时参与生产商品或提供服务的劳动者需求量将日益减少。

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The first phase translates the sequence of characters from byte order (how the characters are stored in memory) to the proper written order (as it would appear on paper).

第一个阶段是将字符序列从字节顺序(字符在内存中如何存储)转换成正确的手写顺序(字符如何在纸面上显示)。

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Mr Jing said the first phase of the trial would last about three years and would involve restricted areas in the city where buses, mid-size vans and cars would be tested.

据王菁透露，该实验的第一阶段将持续三年左右的时间。 实验将在芜湖市内一些指定的区域内进行，他们将对公交车、中型面包车和小汽车进行实验。

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Project partners English Heritage, Shropshire Council and Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings said, if successful, the first phase of work would focus on the stove and dye, as well as the main mill.

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Superglass said the first phase of Project Phoenix would be completed in April 2013.

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"The approval of the full business case marks the culmination of more than a decade of work by the UHB and its predecessor organisations, the Welsh government and significantly the Noah's Ark Appeal, without whose tireless support the first phase of the Children's Hospital of Wales would not have come to fruition, " he said.

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