Among passengers who visit an airline's main counter to obtain their boarding pass or check baggage, average wait times have decreased to 12 minutes in 2009 from 14 minutes in 2008.

到航空公司主柜台领取登机牌或办理行李托运的乘客表示，平均等候时间从2008年的14分钟缩短至2009年的12分钟。

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That idea runs counter to standard thinking about heredity: that parents pass down only genes to their children.

这与遗传学“常识”背道而驰——过去人们一直认为，父母只将基因遗传给自己的孩子。

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The number of times we counter-attacked against them, we just needed to take more care with our final pass or the finishing shot.

我们有好几个反击的机会，只要最后一传或者临门一脚再讲究点就好。

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Thousands of over-the-counter products now must pass behind the pharmacist's counter when the customer pays with the special debit card.

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The misses were punished when Burnley's record signing Fletcher ran on to a Tyrone Mears pass and ended a counter-attack by driving a left-foot shot in from the edge of the area.

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But Brodeur is so adept at handling the puck that DeBoer insists the Devils' defensemen remain in the neutral zone, pushing forward and harassing opposing puck-carriers, and allow Brodeur to make the first pass to initiate a counter rush.

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