Long gone is the "No Tears — We're British" era when emotion was considered distinctly bad form.

“拒绝眼泪——因为我们是英国人”的时代早已远去，那时，多愁善感被认为是很不好的表现。

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But that era is long gone.

但那个时代已过去很久了。

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There's always the possibility that if a civilization takes form early on, or has gone through a long period of seclusion, that when it faces a new era, it faces a huge challenge.

有没有这种可能，比如它的文明成形的比较早，或者它经过漫长的一个封闭时期，当它面对一个新的时代的时候，它可能会面临非常巨大的挑战。

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The airlines originally hired nurses to serve as flight attendants, but by the postwar era, trained health-care workers were long gone and the airlines were looking for attractive, unmarried young women whose main duty would be to serve drinks and meals.

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President Obama and his allies insist that that law - which is incessantly and incorrectly called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, " the nickname for a Clinton-era Defense Department regulation that was intended to undermine the statute by allowing gays to serve as long as they kept their sexual preferences a secret - is a throw-back to an by-gone era.

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