The baggage carousel mix-up could've been slapstick or the inciting incident of a romantic comedy had the reality not sent her bolting back to J. f.

行李传送带出错就像滑稽闹剧或浪漫喜剧里激动人心的突发事件，只是现实并没有把她送回肯尼迪国际机场。

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In general, though, the candidates showed that they would rather rely on tediously familiar rhetoric than come to grips with reality. On economics, the debated gets an F-minus.

不过，一般来说，候选人们所表现的是他们宁可依靠令人不胜其烦的陈腔滥调也不愿去了解并面对现实。在经济问题方面，这次辩论完全不及格。

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If domestic car prices came down to reality a little bit, maybe the international automakers like General Motors (GM) and Ford (F) could sell more of them at a time when the global auto industry is still licking its wounds from 2008.

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