I was surprised by what life offered an awkward teenager such as myself: the opportunity to serve as a second lieutenant in the Battle of the Bulge at the tender age of 19.

我惊讶于这样的生活竟然给我了这样一个笨拙的青年：年仅19岁就成为突出部战役的二级中尉。

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His second collection of short stories, "The Empty Family", which was published late last year in Britain and comes out this month in America, is rich with tender surprises.

去年后半年已在英国出版并于本月登陆美国的他的第二本短篇小说集——《空荡荡的家》，蕴藏了众多温柔的惊喜。

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The second is to further improve the land for open tender process, and optimize the evaluation criteria and methods.

二是要进一步完善土地公开招标过程，优化的评价标准和方法。

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Last year, Pemex had to abandon its second tender for ethanol to be used as a gasoline additive because the offers made were above the price the oil company was prepared to pay.

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Iraq's oil-marketing organisation left Kirkuk production out of its second sales tender, issued last week, in a sign that the central administration lacks confidence about how soon the pipeline can be restored.

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This year McIlroy won his second major, the PGA Championship in August, at the tender age if 23 -- slightly younger than when Woods won his second at the same event in 1999.

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