If all had gone according to plan, the first 50, 000 Dongtan residents - the eco-city was supposed to accommodate 500, 000 within thirty years - would be settled in by now.

如果一切按计划进行，如今将有首批5万居民入住东滩，生态城三十年内将有50万人定居。

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She was never interested in fitness before but now she's been bitten by the bug.

她以前从来不在乎健身，现在她却着了迷。

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A bird had been locked in and was by now quite frantic.

一只鸟被关了起来，到现在它都非常狂躁。

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But what must it do now. There was the problem of property in South Carolina owned by the federal government.

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Now, in contrast to the land, God's sanctuary can be purified for moral impurity by means of a special sacrifice.

与土地对比，上帝的圣所倒是可以通过一些特殊的献祭,净化道德上的不洁。

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Now that by the by that somebody who believes in souls could also accept the personality theory of personal identity.

即使是相信灵魂论的人,也可以接受,人格同一性的人格论。

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In what by now has become a pattern, CAIR immediately came to the alleged terrorist's defense.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: CAIR defends Ohio Al-Qaeda suspect

It would be safe to say that he is pretty well known at Infinite Loop (Apple headquarters) in Cupertino by now.

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Had the US moved its every diplomatic sinew to introduce a global instrument, one senses it would have been in place by now.

BBC: US and its airlines: Too much hot air?