By some calculations Germany and France could overtake Japan as aid donors by next year, pushing the world's second-biggest economy into fifth place, a world bank official said.

一位世行官员表示，按照一些计算方法，到明年，德国和法国的援助捐赠国排行可能会超过日本，将这个全球第二大经济体挤到第五位。

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Second question, a British official said that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appealed to the Chinese side to give leniency to the British citizen sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

第二个问题，英国官员称，英国首相布朗向中方表示希赦免涉嫌贩毒的英国公民死刑。

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Also unlike the TOEFL, the IELTS exam requires a face-to-face interview portion by a trained English-as-a-second-language official, Meiron said in a telephone interview.

Meiron总监在电话还说道，另外与托福不同的是，雅思还需要一个与受过训练的且英语为第二语言的官员面对面面试的板块。

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The second official said that Marine Corps' Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams would be deployed only to augment security at any nearby embassies.

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The possible breakthrough came from an analysis of video from a Lord and Taylor department store near the site of the second blast, and video from a Boston TV station helped as well, the official said.

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"She said, 'Don't ever threaten me again, '" said a second official familiar with the heated conversation.

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