It's the first time a Westerner has been convicted for a drug-related offence in recent years in China.

这是近年来第一次有西方人在中国被判犯有与毒品有关的罪行。

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With standardized test scores in the U.S. dropping in recent years, some administrators believe students need to spend more time in the classroom instead of on the playground.

近年来，随着美国标准考试成绩的下降，一些执政者认为学生需要在教室里花费更多的时间，而不应该在操场上。

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With standardized test scores in the U.S. dropping in recent years, some administrators believe students need to spend more time in the classroom instead of on the playground.

近年来，随着美国标准考试成绩的下降，一些执政者认为学生需要在教室里花费更多的时间，而不是操场上。

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It's happened over the course of millions of years of human evolution, but it's happened also in a relatively recent time frame when we think about the American diet and what people are eating, but also the world diet of course.

它们发生在人类数百万年的演化历程中,在近现代,当我们考虑美国人的食谱,当然也包括全世界的食谱,同样在发生着这些变革

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In recent years, Time Inc. has been a drag on corporate-level results and revenue from the magazine unit hasn't recovered from the recession as advertisers continue to shift money out of print formats and onto digital ones.

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Only unlike most other similar situations in recent years, this time the decline was fueled mainly by traders establishing short, or bearish, positions rather than mainly selling to exit or capture profits on bullish ones.

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And as if there haven't already been enough recycled media brands pushed to the movie screen in recent years, AOL Time Warner's Warner Bros. will bring a live-action version of the Scooby-Doo mystery cartoons, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.

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