The bare little farmhouse was a fixed fact, but she had many a palace into which she now and then withdrew;

尽管这个空荡荡的小农舍是一个没法改变的事实，但是她心里却拥有许许多多的宫殿，可以时不时地进去躲藏。

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"And we all understand that there are fixed household budgets and also given the fact that generally prices of essential food commodities have taken a major increase."

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By coincidence, the central bank on Monday approved a new rule designed to protect consumers from deceptive lending practices, including advertising practices that say interest rates are fixed when in fact they're not.

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Nomura based its case on a stronger real short term on the fact that Japanese fixed income investors are still in love with the currency, pouring billions into Brazilian bonds and bank CDs in August.

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They referred to the fact that this link was fixed only in the preamble of the document.

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