As industrialisation swept through what is now the developed world, fertility fell sharply, first in France, then in Britain, then throughout Europe and America.

而如今，随着发达国家工业化规模不断扩大，人口出生率却在不断下降——在这方面，法国首当其冲，英国紧随其后，接着整个欧洲再加上美国也加入到了这一行列。

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As industrialisation swept through what is now the developed world, fertility fell sharply, first in France, then in Britain, then throughout Europe and America.

随着工业化横扫世界而诞生的发达国家中, 生育率急剧下降, 这种现象首先发生在法国, 然后是英国, 后来遍及整个欧洲和美洲.当人们富裕时, 家庭规模变小;

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France is expected to detonate its first nuclear device in the next few days.

预计法国将在未来几天内引爆它的第一个核装置。

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The Pakistani prime minister's talks - first in France and then in Britain - have certainly made headlines.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Ok, so yeah, I first specialized in France in Aviation Engineering,

我先是在法国学的航空工程，

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The movie was released in nineteen eighty-seven and became the first Palestinian film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

It fell out of use first in France and England.

BBC: Pope resignation: Who speaks Latin these days?

Dubbed "Godfather of the Kremlin" by FORBES for his strong ties to the Yeltsin government, he fell out with Russian President Vladimir Putin and fled Moscow in 2000, landing first in France.

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He went to Oxford to read French and became a teacher, first in France and then on the Greek island of Spetse, where he studied the ancient myths and grew to love what he always called agria Ellada, the wild Greece.

ECONOMIST: John Fowles