Prepare yourself for contrasting views from football fans, often less than complimentary about the referee, when a penalty is awarded.

如果你站在球迷的角度，对于裁判罚给你一个点球是没什么好感激的，但对于获得点球的球员来说可远不止如此。

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This has enabled it to set the price of many new e-book titles and bestsellers at $9.99, which is often less than it has paid for them.

这就使其能够将诸多新电子书与畅销书定价为9.99美元，而这一价格通常比其进价还低。

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So they are usually more wasteful than other consumers-even though the value they create from the water is often less than households or industry would be willing to pay for it.

所以，农民往往比其他使用者浪费更多的水，尽管他们利用水资源创造的价值高于家庭或工业愿意支付的价格。

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Indigenous and aboriginal groups are often less healthy than the people whose ancestors settled in their lands.

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For women, the good news is that that fat below the waist tends to do less physical damage than the fact above the waist that men more often have.

对女性来说,好消息是,腰以下的脂肪堆积对身体造成的损害比,男性的腰以上的脂肪要少

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There it had less to do often with social forms of reform although that's not entirely true than it had to do with the Civil Rights revolution and the Vietnam War.

通常来说,它与改革的社会形态关联较小,但是它与民权革命和越战的关系,也没有人们认为的那么紧密

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This isn't tolerable in an age inwhich a high-tech product generation is often less than two years.

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And since the sum seized is often less than the legal costs of trying to get it back, many people never try.

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Turns out that in many town and villages, excessive levels might have been found on a few parcels (often less than a few acres, owned and tilled by an elderly couple), among dozens or hundreds of larger districts.

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