The best part of his expedition had been the rediscovery of his natural passion for making things.

他此次探险最佳环节是，重新发现了自己对制造事物的天生热情。

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She had the unenviable task of making the first few phone calls.

她的不愉快的任务是打头几个电话。

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For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.

有一段时间，由美国创造的、处于新计算机时代核心的半导体制造业似乎将成为下一个受害者。

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Elvis had spent most of the 1960s in Hollywood making movies.

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She had dedicated herself weeks ago to making sense of what Inverarity had left behind, never suspecting that the legacy was America.

她前几周一直致力于,弄清Inverarity留下了什么，从来没有怀疑过，那遗产就是美国。

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This calculation wasn't done very frequently; that's just if you had one of the satisfactions of knowing how much money you were making.

这个运算并不经常用,除非你非得知道,自己会赚多少钱

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Or to put it another way, the Department made unrealistic assumptions about the growth of passenger numbers and inflation towards the back end of the franchise period - which had the effect of making First Group's bid seem significantly more attractive, because First Group was massively more optimistic about how passengers and revenues could grow after 2021 than was Virgin.

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By the latter part of March, the uptrend had resumed and the number of stocks making new highs had also started to increase.

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The irony is that King, an unemployed construction worker at the time of the beating, had become prominent of late by making the talk-show circuit with the release of his memoir The Riot Within.

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