Such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances.

这种情景也曾经作为幸福而出现过；但如今，透过她随之而来的生活的悲惨的折射，只能归类于她回忆中最不堪入目的部分了。

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A firm importing a worker under such a scheme would presumably pay him a lower wage than it would pay an equivalent local (otherwise why not just hire a native?)

依照此方案，接收工人的公司支付的工资可能会低于当地的平均水平(否则为何不雇一个本地人？)

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The subject should be equal to or brighter than the background, otherwise the image will not be balanced. (Ignacio Palacios/LPI)

拍摄对象的亮度应该与背景相同，或比背景更亮，否则图片的亮度会失衡。

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Acting on those ideas would make oil cheaper than it would otherwise have been - though not necessarily cheaper than it is now.

BBC: G8 summit: The key issues

And so he may be able to draw on his resources and his rolodex to try to get some people in those positions who might not otherwise have taken them if somebody other than Mukasey was attorney general.

NPR: Lawmakers Question Mukasey on Ideas

This will cause a shortage of bacon in the future and if not an excess then certainly more grain than otherwise that can be eaten by humans.

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