Of course, there is nothing written in stone to say that things have to be as bad as they were in the mid-1990s.

当然，石头里没有写事情会和90年代中期一样坏。

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Nokia cut phone prices in late January, putting its cheapest smart phones on a collision course with mid-range phones from rivals Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

诺基亚上月底下调全线产品价格，令其最价廉的智能手机与竞争对手三星和索爱的中端手机产生直接竞争。

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And, of course, the other thing that's going on is that the Web browser is finally usurping the OS as the universal platform that was envisioned back in the mid-1990s.

当然，另一件值得关注的事情是，早在二十世纪九十年代中期，对于设想中的通用平台，Web浏览器就已经最终战胜了操作系统。

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That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

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Cruise missiles have been fitted with satellite-based guidance systems making it possible to readjust their course in mid-flight and, in theory, to achieve pinpoint accuracy.

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He said if we succeed in having high-tech then almost automatically we will be also knowledgeable in mid-tech and, of course, low-tech too.

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Junior potential by no means guarantees senior success, of course - in the mid-1990s Martin Lee rose to junior world number one but never made it higher than 94th in the senior standings.

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