Berkshire Hathaway is paying around 30% more for Burlington Northern’s shares than their price on the day before the deal was announced, and barely 10% less than their all-time high.

伯克希尔•哈撒韦为伯灵顿北方公司支付了其在这场交易之前所公布股价大约30％的溢价，仅比最高价少10％。

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Yet this article was written on a small computer that costs less than that-and barely a quarter of the price of the Apple iMac that sits on the desk beside it.

然而，本文倒是在一台小电脑上写成的，这台电脑不用花那样的价钱——它的价格几乎只有书桌上在它旁边的苹果iMac的四分之一。

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But less than a decade ago, the credit-swaps market barely existed.

但是在不到十年以前，债务互换市场还未存在。

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Under current policies the mean retirement age by 2050 will still be less than 65, barely higher than it was after the second world war.

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In truth the elephant is only a corporate logo, but the reality of marrying the Internet with a traditional building products company in a battered, backward economy is barely less difficult than the image.

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Barely 5ft 9ins and less than 13 stone, he's a midget in a land of giants, but what he lacks in size he more than makes up for with mouth, a constant chatterbox on and off the field, fired by a perceived sense of injustice at the way his country has been treated by the rugby elite.

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