While hundreds of Brazilian stars ply their trade in Europe, the local football league is a paragon of mismanagement.

当数以百计的巴西球星在欧洲大显身手之时，国内足球联赛的经营却严重不善。

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Messerschmitt and Heinkel, forbidden to ply their former trade of building military aircraft, turned to bubble cars as a peacetime alternative.

在messerschmitt和heinkel不被允许继续从事以前的军用飞机制造生意后，他们转而生产微型汽车，将这当做和平时期的选择。

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Fred had five goals in as many games in the Confederations Cup and has been part of a wave of top Brazilians who have decided to ply their trade at home in recent years instead of in Europe.

在联合会杯中，弗雷德共进球五粒，他也是近年来决定在本土而不是去欧洲踢球的众多顶级巴西球星之一。

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The Luddites wished to return to a more natural way of life, in which skilled craftsment could ply their trade and make a living, and in which civilization was not ravaged by all the ills of industrialization (including heavy metals and other factory-produced toxins poisoning millions).

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But as for the core labor issue: "teams and unions collectively determining whether a player can ply his trade and what he can make, " he says, it makes little sense to think that even a strong, centralized NFL can affect that.

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At least, the existence of TouchWiz and other skins gives modders like Cyanogen a trade to ply -- but it leaves average users oblivious to the phone they could really have.

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