That does not lessen the shock value for a modern reader, even though war in our time is no less savage and no less brutal.

对于现在读者，它的震惊效果并未削弱，尽管现代的战争不再那样野蛮残忍。

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Each time your phone rings, breathe before you answer it. (6 seconds is less than the time it takes for the phone to ring again, so no one will even notice you’re taking time for yourself.)

比如，假设你是一个秘书，每当你电话响起时，在你接听前，来一个放松呼吸（6秒钟，远远短于电话在响起的时间，所以没有人会注意到你在偷空）。

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SOME fish have special proteins in their blood to stopthem from freezing to death—a remarkable evolutionary trait made no less so bythe fact that biologists have known about it for some time.

某些鱼的血液里存在特殊蛋白质，可以让它们不致冻死——生物学家对此早已有所认识的事实，丝毫不影响对这一显著的进化性状的惊奇。

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The Kremlin leader says expenditures will exceed revenues for the first time in ten years, creating a budget deficit of no less than seven percent of the country's gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

After former Philadelphia Flyers winger Arron Asham signed with the rival Pittsburgh Penguins over the weekend, his agent wasted no time revealing the reason for his decision to take less money with the team.

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It's been a long while since Magellan comprehensively updated its RoadMate GPS mapping units, so the company's making up for lost time in style by introducing no less than seven new models in one shot.

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Unfortunately, I had no time for sightseeing in New Zealand, as I landed and departed in less than 24 hours.

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