North Shore school District 112 was fortunate to have other options and will maintain its traditionally low class sizes - which in 2009 averaged 19 in elementary grades and 21 in middle school.

112学区的北岸学校很幸运，可以有别的选择，维持其传统的小规模课堂——在2009年小学班级平均人数为19人，中学为21人。

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A boat came up to the landing, and a middle-aged man, with grey hair and dark moustache, stepped on shore.

这时一艘小船开过来了，船上一位头发灰白，胡子乌黑的中年男子上了岸。

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We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore, and up-bound steamboats fight the big river in the middle.

我们一整天躺在那里，看着一些木筏子和轮船沿着密苏里河岸向下游驶去，看着朝上游驶去的轮船在大河的河水中央使劲搏斗。

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So the Tories are desperate to shore up their base among middle-class voters: time therefore for a risk.

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Worse, you will miss the dramatic arc of this remarkable production, as the action courses over decades, in and out of personal calamity and ideological disillusion before coming to shore at what might best be described as a Stoppardian middle way.

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Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, has embarked on a Middle Eastern tour and all this diplomacy is designed to shore up a truce painstakingly negotiated earlier in the month by George Tenet, the director of the CIA. So much for Mr Bush's hands-off policy.

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