The team is in debt while others are lining up to cherry-pick their best players.

该队负了债，而别的队正在排队挑捡他们最好的运动员。

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The fall in inflation is the silver lining of the prolonged recession.

通货膨胀率下降是长期经济衰退中的一线希望。

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Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake of the rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month.

本月早些时候，伦敦发生了骚乱和抢劫事件，目前伦敦警方正在为诺丁山狂欢节组织大规模警力。

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China's steel production rose 15% year on year in November after flat-lining in the first half of the year.

WSJ: Income-to-Housing Price Gap Narrows in China

The drug, is found in Seretide and Servant inhalers, acts on beta-2 receptors in the lining of the airways, but previous research has shown that as many as one-in-seven children carry a gene variant - arginine-16 - that undermines its effectiveness.

BBC: Is this the shape of medicine to come?

It would kick-start our flat-lining economy, create jobs and in the long-term strengthen our economy and help get the deficit down.

BBC: Vince Cable: Borrowing may not be as bad as slow growth