With audiences in the U.S. falling for the first time in a generation, Hollywood is girding itself for recession.

由于美国观众数量在这一代第一次出现下降，好莱坞正在为衰退做准备。

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The first manifests itself in our tireless search for the magical level at which welfare grants are big enough to meet basic needs but small enough to make low-paid work attractive.

第一个体现在我们孜孜不倦地追求平衡的水平上，在这个水平上，福利津贴要大到足以满足基本需要，但又要小到足以使低收入工作具有吸引力。

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One of the rebels showed up voluntarily in The Hague this week—itself a first—for a confirmation of charges that relate to an attack on African Union peacekeepers in Sudan’s western region of Darfur.

本周，在海牙法院，叛乱分子之一第一次自愿出庭——目的是为一项指控作证——袭击非盟驻苏丹西部达尔富尔地区维和人员案。

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The first thing we need to do is write the electron configuration for the atom itself, and then we need to take an electron away.

首先我们要做的是,写出原子的电子排布，然后，我们再拿走一个电子。

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The first was the objection, the claim that utilitarianism, " by concerning itself with the greatest good for the greatest number, fails adequately to respect individual rights.

第一点异议，是说功利主义，只关注“为最多的人谋求最大的幸福，没有充分地尊重个人权利。

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Now, I hope you guys know that much calculus, that when you take a derivative of a function of a function, namely v square over 2 is a function of v, and v itself is a function of t, then the rule for taking the derivative is first take the v derivative of this object, then take the d by dt of t, which is this one.

我希望你们了解更多的微积分知识,当你对复合函数求导时,也就是说v^/2是关于v的函数,而v本身是关于t的函数,求导的法则应该是,第一步是这一部分对v求导,然后v再对t求导,得到这一部分

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From a national security policy perspective, it makes no sense for the federal government to prevent Arizona from providing a first layer of defense for itself and the Nation.

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The first charges for phone hacking itself came last week, as prosecutors charged a former aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron and a close confidant of media baron Rupert Murdoch, along with six others.

CNN: Reporter on Murdoch's Sun arrested over stolen phones

The Speaker, John Bercow, said that was a matter, in the first instance, for the committee itself.

BBC: Strong language peppers debate