The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paintbrushes, etc.

这一变化的起因是，现在全国有几十家公司购买废弃的塑料汽水瓶，并把它们制成栅栏桩、油漆刷等。

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Right now there are only a few hundred HDTV sets in Japan.

目前日本仅有几百台高清电视机。

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There was frantic blame-shifting when everything in Asia seemed to be going wrong; now there is a race to claim credit when some things have started to go right.

当亚洲的一切似乎都出了问题时，就出现了疯狂推卸责任的现象；现在，当一些事情开始朝着好的方向发展时，就产生了一场争夺信誉的竞赛。

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Now there is worry about a new threat headed in their direction in the wind a fungus that destroys wheat crops.

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There was nature; now there is culture, which is very much like an event or birth in the older sense.

有了自然，然后就有了文明，这就像从前说的发展或者诞生。

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at night, you can't do, you can't even do it now. There's no crosstown bus there now.

是不可能了，甚至现在就不可能。因为那里已经没有跨区的巴士了。

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As of January 2011, where once there was one Motorola, now there were two.

FORBES: The Other Motorola

Decades from now there will be another bubble, and the accounting scandals will come back to life.

FORBES: Bubbles and Scandals

But now there are fears that this aspect of Singapore's culinary heritage is on the wane.

BBC: Can Singapore's hawker food heritage survive?