After five or ten minutes of what I thought was a serious conversation, Roger cut it off and got to the point.

就这样进行了五到十分钟我所认为的严肃谈话之后，罗杰打断了我的话，直奔主题。

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Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental "voyage" to the Red Planet.

周一，两名同外部世界隔离了8个月之久的志愿者在模拟火星上迈出了第一步，进而让这个关于火星旅行的实验到达了关键性的中间点。

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But I think there may be something of a cut-off point when it comes to what are called "social networking" websites such as Facebook and, more especially, Twitter.

但是我觉得，出现这种叫做“社交网络”的网站时，比如Facebook，比如更为特殊的Twitter，就可能出现了一个分界点。

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Democrat-leaning and bailout recipient Goldman Sachs estimates that an expiration of the tax cut could knock two-thirds of a percentage point off growth in early 2012.

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Mr Stirling said anyone who signed up before the cut-off point at the end of August would still receive their newsletters and a birthday card.

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That is roughly 0.3% of the power of the 180-decibel cut-off point that the operational system would have.

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