Now if you had told me 28 years ago that I would one day send written messages and make telephone calls around the world from a small box I could fit in my pocket, I would have been skeptical.

如果28年前你告诉我，有一天我能在世界各地用一个衣服口袋就能装下的小盒子发送书面信息和拨打电话，我会认为是天方夜谭。

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But the wall isn't impenetrable. It's riddled with "interstellar tunnels" that lead from one pocket of less dense gas to another.

但是这层气体并不是密不透风，它里面有很多星际“隧道”，把一个个局部空洞区域连起来。

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Dumbledore took from an inside pocket another crystal phial and Harry fell silent at once, remembering that Dumbledore had said it was the most important one he had collected.

邓布利多从里面的口袋里又摸出一个小水晶瓶，哈利顿时安静下来，想起邓布利多说这是他收集的记忆中最重要的一个。

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The Commission has refused to exempt sovereign debt from the levy, which means that participating governments will be taking money from one pocket and putting it in another.

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The point is that with a little creativity and planning, you too might be able to substantially reduce taxes on your retirement savings, as well as the the tax burden on your heirs, simply by shifting savings that you already have from one pocket to another.

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And the main achievement of his first year was the so-called stimulus, which was based on the same Keynesian theory that a nation can become richer by switching money from one pocket to another.

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