Mercedes is not new to making small cars, but its efforts have been crippled by productions that are sub-scale and over-engineered.

梅赛德斯在制造小型汽车方面并不是新手，但是由于产销规模小以及过度设计，开发能力受到削弱。

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Germany has made great progress at finding its place in the world since unification, but it is not yet over the hump of history.

自两德统一以来，德国在寻找自己在世界上的位置方面取得了巨大的进步，但它还没有走出历史的低谷。

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Chinese models are the faces of beauty and fashion campaigns that sell dreams to women all over the world, which means Chinese women are not just consumers of fashion—they are central to its movement.

中国模特是向全球女性兜售梦想的美丽和时尚运动的代表，这意味着中国女性不仅是时尚的消费者，更是时尚运动的核心。

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As recently as last week China said it would not discuss the dispute over its currency at the Toronto summit.

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Mr.Ahmedinejad told reporters, after the parliament vote, that Iran would not bow to world pressure over its nuclear program.

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On the other hand Wal-Mart has gone through a tremendous effort over the last couple of years to integrate environmental sustainability into not only its own practices but to force this into the supply chain."

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India, for example, seems not to have intervened much in the foreign-exchange market, but its currency has not moved much over the past year either.

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The CEO also told investors in January that he would entertain strategic options for the growth-challenged Discover unit if it did not improve its performance over the next two to three years.

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Since the momentum shifted toward Sirius at the end of 2005 as Howard was about to go live, Sirius has dramatically accelerated its growth while XM has not met its projections, casting doubts over all of satellite radio.

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