With the price of oil nearing record levels, Newfoundland’s 505,000 inhabitants are hoping to become comfortable, if not rich: a novel state for this perennially poor province.

由于油价上涨幅度达到了破纪录的水平，纽芬兰505,000居民希望生活就算不富也能舒服一些：这对这个常年贫困的省份来说还是个全新经历。

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Some employers also run credit checks on potential job applicants, and an employer who is concerned enough to check your credit score will probably be concerned enough to not hire you if it's poor.

一些雇主对潜在应聘者也做信用记录检查，而那些对检查信用记录很关心的雇主就有可能在当你信用记录差时不会雇用你。

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But most are in poor countries and many, if not most, of their inhabitants live in slums.

但这些城市多数是在贫穷国家，并且即便不是大部分，仍有数量众多的城市居民生活在极度的贫困之中。

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If it is compromised, then the bees could not defend themselves against pesticides or fungal infections or bacteria or poor nutrition.

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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If it is compromised,then the bees could not defend themselves against pesticide products, fungal infections, bacteria or poor nutrition.

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He thinks the region needs to invest twice as much if poor infrastructure is not to hold back growth.

ECONOMIST: Efficiency drive

He fancied being a politician, and being made a lord was a substitute, if a poor one, for not being elected to the House of Commons.

ECONOMIST: Lord Sainsbury

That is not what you would expect if poor governance were behind the bonanza.

ECONOMIST: Executive pay