If ever there were a moment for this, it would be now.

如果有过这么一个时刻，那就应该是现在。

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It would be a great pity if you gave up now.

你要是现在放弃，那就太可惜了。

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The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged.

岩石已经很小了；很快它就会被淹没。

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Cleveland warned that it would be far better to make safe,careful, and intelligent changes in the tariff laws now.

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And indeed, the question, strictly speaking, isn't even would life on the experience machine ? be better than it is now?

严格地说，我的问题，甚至不是说体验机器上的人生,难道不会比现在的更好吗？

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Now you'd hope that it would be a small percentage of the population that would be affected by this but it's not.

尽管你希望只有很少一部分人,存在这个问题,但事实却不是如此

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The OBR can point to some important evidence in their favour: business surveys consistently report companies saying they do not have much spare capacity, or room to grow, despite the fact that our economy is now 4% smaller than it was at the start of 2009, and some 13% smaller than it would be now, had it simply continued on its pre-crisis trend.

BBC: Is the Bank of England doing enough?

It said it believed it would now be in compliance with Nasdaq regulations, and it plans to resume share buybacks after it files third-quarter earnings in November.

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Can you imagine what it would be like now, with Twitter?

NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch