Since independence was proclaimed by the son of the Portuguese king, Brazil has been adding layer upon layer of change rather than sweeping away the old and starting afresh.

自从葡萄牙国王的儿子宣布独立后，巴西一直就是一层一层往上加东西，而不是把旧的东西一扫而空，重新开始。

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If calling code ignored the API and manipulated data structures in the library code, this independence would be lost since a change in the library's implementation might break the misbehaving client.

如果调用代码忽略api并处理库代码中的数据结构，那么将丧失这种独立性，因为库实现中的改变可能破坏行为失常的客户端。

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This had not been allowed since 1873, to safeguard parliamentary independence.

为了保持国会的独立性，这是自从1873年以来不被允许的。

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Harper's magazine would send him to draw pictures of the biggest event in American history since independence.

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The war was the worst violence since South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia in 1992.

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And so, even though there has been political independence since 1960, France has had a base there in Chad.

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The Scottish government has given the BBC a list of the 30 countries which it says have decided on independence since World War II - along with the year they took UN membership.

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As Asia faces its biggest crises since Independence, adversity may again prove the best teacher.

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