Following James Watt’s improvement of the steam engine in 1764, almost every year in the late 18th century brought a new revolution.

在詹姆斯 瓦特于1764年蒸汽机发明之后，18世纪末的每一年几乎都有新的重大变革。

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The firm’s president, David Hess, has said the new engine could double the size of the company, which had sales of nearly $13 billion last year.

公司总裁大卫•汉斯说，这款新发动机可以把公司规模扩大两倍，该公司去年的销售额为13亿美元。

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Thomas -that famous little blue tank engine -hits retirement age this year, but the plucky, imaginary locomotive shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.

知名动画角色——蓝色蒸汽小火车头托马斯今年到了退休的年龄了。但是这个虚构出来的勇敢的蒸汽火车头并没有任何放慢其全速前进的步伐。

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The engine is the result of an 18-year project to build the locomotive and return it to main line service.

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Now if you have the engine of the whole world slowing down and you have continued problems in Europe, and you have the first year of the Presidential cycle, which will likely to cool down the U.S., and you have this miserable fiscal cliff problem.

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Though local economists are optimistic, many foreign analysts worry about exports, which last year were the main engine of growth.

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