What Washington does—or doesn't do—to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.

在这个全球思维都在转变的时代，华盛顿在推动可替代能源发展方面作为或是不作为，其影响越来越小。

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Marconi may not have been the greatest inventor of his time, but more than anyone else, he brought about a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

马可尼也许不是那个时代最伟大的发明家，但他从根本上改变了我们的沟通方式，在这一点上他比任何人都伟大。

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A person's BMI turns out to be hard to shift in the short term.

经证明，一个人的体重指数在短期内是很难改变的。

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The organization more recently has called for the government to allow unhindered access to aid workers in make-shift camps that house hundreds of thousands of Tamils, including women and children.

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Some abstraction is also apparent in the shift from visual to aural imagery in describing God's self-manifestations or theophanies.

某些抽离在从纳贡者到听见神的自我宣称,或者神显的想像中也是十分明显的。

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A-Yes, so this is what you mean by the parodying shift that we need, A-desperately need in our foreign policy B-Yes.

所以这是您所说的,我们所需要的转变，我们在外交政策方面急需做出的转变。

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But a clutch of Western development officials I've been talking to all acknowledge that the "Madonna Incident" points towards a more general shift - already in progress - away from the top-down aid of past decades and towards a new focus on policy development, partnership and business.

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Many commentators are arguing that what is needed to tackle the problem are not simply measures such as those outlined above, but rather a quantum-shift in the technology of air travel, with a radical re-think not only in how planes are designed, but also what they are actually made of.

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Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.

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