Mr Putin told delegates that the two men had reached agreement on who should hold which post "a long time ago, several years back".

普京告诉他的团队这两个人已经就谁有资格占据这个”很久以前，几年之后“的职位达成一致。

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Several years ago, I spoke at my father's fune-ral. I could not hold back the tears.

几年前，我在父亲的葬礼上发言，不禁泪流不止。

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The second demand is the lifting of caps on the amount of mortgages they may buy and hold for themselves, put in place after accounting scandals a few years ago.

第二个要求是提高抵押数量限制，也许他们会买并且持有下去，在几年前说明丑闻投入使用的。

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Mister Jonson knew long ago that the works of Shakespeare would hold their magic through the ages.

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And so when you start to poke around the puzzle pieces, you see that it can say things, we'll see movement in just a moment and sound and so forth, but at the end of the day, this is just like the program we used a moment ago for the sock exercise where we just hold Philip a step after step after step, do this, do this, do that, and yet, here too, we already see an opportunity for that thing we called the loop.

如果你认真看下这些拼图，你会发现它都是一些移动，并发出声音的功能块,就像我刚才的,练习程序一样,我们让飞利浦做这个动作，做那个动作，跟这里的情况一样，我们已经看到了称为循环的东西。

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Three years ago a group of interfaith activists began to hold monthly vigils at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington to speak up for the people of Darfur.

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But when the difficult global economy took hold several years ago, many companies were forced to cut back on financial incentive programs or even put them on hold in order to stay financially viable.

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Intu Properties said Nottingham City Council had not progressed an application to redevelop the Victoria Centre put on hold 12 months ago.

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But those rules I learned back in my Franklin days two decades ago still hold true.

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