If an older worker is forced to work an extra couple of years, it seems obvious this would delay a young person's entry into the labor force.

如果老工人被迫多工作几年，很明显这会使年轻人加入劳动队伍的时间推延。

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As a result, when a couple of thousand Palestinians, bused to the Golan border opposite the town of Majdal Shams, began clambering over the fence, only a small force of soldiers confronted them.

结果是，当数千巴勒斯坦人被公交车运送至戈兰高地边境Majdal Shams镇对面，并开始攀越障碍时，面对他们的只有一小队的士兵。

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Haskell explained the couple didn't buy a house until their mid 30s because, as an Air Force officer, he moved around often.

Haskell解释直到他们30岁时才购买房子的原因，因为作为一个空军军官，他常常搬家。

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On the other hand Wal-Mart has gone through a tremendous effort over the last couple of years to integrate environmental sustainability into not only its own practices but to force this into the supply chain."

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There's the hard sphere. It wants to collide against the wall to create a force on the wall, and I have a couple of the hard spheres that are nearby, right, and in the absence of any interactions, I get a certain pressure.

给墙一个作用力,现在它的附近，还有许多小球,没有相互作用时,它将直接冲向这面墙。

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As I remember only one of us wore a uniform there and only on Mondays, my good friend Victor Donovan, who retired from the Air Force a couple of years ago.

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The following year he spoke about how he survived after the vehicle he was in was hit by an improvised explosive device or IED, with the force of the blast snapping a couple of the machine guns in half.

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