Republicans insist that all tax cuts be extended for all income levels, including millionaires, and have threatened to block any legislation that allows taxes on top earners to rise.

共和党坚持说，延长减税的计划应当适用于所有阶层，其中也包括百万富翁。他们还威胁将阻止任何允许高收入阶层税收上涨的立法。

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With the rise of the social web, things have changed again. MySpace, Facebook, and now Twitter are taking over in people's minds as the newest, coolest kids on the block.

随着社交网络的兴起，MySpace、Facebook以及现在的Twitter成为人们心中的时髦而新潮的酷小孩。

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Driving past a block of low-rise buildings with neatly trimmed hedges, Stoica notes a couple of apartments owned by people currently under investigation.

在开车经过一栋带有齐整树篱的低层建筑时，斯托·伊卡告诉我说，其中几间公寓的所有者目前正在接受调查。

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But today, kind of at that end is a great big high-rise office block.

但是现在，集市那头是一个很大的高层办公楼。

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Called Golden Gai (Golden Town), this scruffy low-rise block of six narrow laneways is a world away from the glitz of Tokyo.

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The inquest into the deaths at the Lakanal House high rise block, in Camberwell, in 2009 has been long awaited by the families of Dayana Francisquini, Thais Francisquini, Felipe Francisquini-Cervi, Helen and Michelle Udoaka and Catherine Hickman.

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In fact, the bomb landed about a mile away, destroying an empty high-rise apartment block.

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