One retort would surely be that even ex-colonial powers can learn from their mistakes.

这肯定会引起另一位外交官的反驳——即使身处前殖民超级大国的地位，也应该从过去的错误中吸取教训。

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Toolbar searches that use federated search software like MuseGlobal or Ex Libris's Metalib can search groups of databases or even subject subsets of several databases.

使用联邦检索软件工具栏搜索比如MuseGlobal或Ex Libris的Metalib可以搜索多组数据库，甚至一些数据库的子库。

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More than two-thirds of the group never "blow hot", and drunk-driving arrests are down by more than half even after the ex-offenders are no longer subject to testing.

超过三分之二的人再未“脸红脖子粗”，且即便是在有醉驾前科的分子不再接受测试的情况下，因醉驾而被拘役的人员数量缩减了一大半。

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Using either of the two EX models, even beginners can shoot excellent videos with the help of Smile Meter, which shows how big a smile is in percentage points, Smile Shot, which automatically takes a digital still when it detects a great smile, and Pet Shot, which automatically shoots stills when a dog or cat faces the camera.

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Even outside ex-Yugoslavia, authoritarian and bigoted ideas still haunt the political fringe.

ECONOMIST: The world after 1989

One long-term cost of America's love affair with incarceration will be a growing number of ex-convicts with even slimmer chances of finding a job than they had before they went to prison.

ECONOMIST: Out of sight, out of mind