In practice, the agency system has decayed. Most "agents" now sell only to themselves or their immediate family.

实际上，这种代理制已经衰退。现在，大多数“代理人”都只把产品卖给自己或亲近的家人。

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Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.

到目前为止，许多只在一个州或几个州有实体店的卖家，在往这些州以外的地方运送货物时，都能够避免征收营业税。

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It's now a "global village" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link.

现在它是一个“地球村”，通过传真、电话或卫星连接，国家之间只有几秒钟的距离。

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But shop owners say now they only see "essential customers" those who have to buy for the marriage of a son or a daughter.

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Now, language is not the only thing in culture or nature that has this sort of combinatorial system.

语言并不是在文化或自然中,唯一拥有这种组合系统的事物

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So similarly, as we now move up only one more atom in the table, 3 so to an atomic number of three or lithium, now we're going from six variables all the way to nine variables.

类似地就像我们现在,移动到周期表中仅仅多一个电子的情况，移动到一个原子数为，或者锂元素,现在我们从6个变量到了9个变量。

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After a couple of quarters where they only hit a solid double or triple, now this is the only hope for them?

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But the team is already making some advances that could wind up in handsets only a year or two from now.

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