When a stone falls into a pond, the ripples persist for a while. The credit crunch was a whopping great boulder.

一块石头掉落水池所引起的波澜，会持续好长一段时间。而信贷危机就是这样一块特别大的石头。

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There is no road back to the scent of the Julys when I was young and leapt from a boulder into the ice-cold meltwater of a Norwegian fjord.

再也回不到那个芳香的七月，那时我还年轻，我从一块冰砾上跳进了挪威峡湾冰冷的融水里。

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A larger boulder with the victims' names was lowered into the sea and relatives tossed notes into the water.

刻有受害者名字的一块巨石被放入海中而家人们向水中扔些记录以表对逝者的哀思。

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The liberator of black slaves is portrayed in her late 20s, young, but weary, sitting on a bench carved into a boulder.

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"The boulder signals a point in time and a concrete idea of the launch and a projection into the future, " said Mike Stanley.

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