The hard volcanic stone was a resource that had been in great demand for many years, at least since the rise of the Olmecs (a people who flourished between 1200 and 400 B.

坚硬的火山岩是一种多年来需求量很大的资源，至少从奥尔梅克人（一种生活在公元前1200年至400年之间的民族）崛起以来是这样。

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London's third great function, since the seventeenth century, has been that of national and international bourse: the exchange of stocks and shares, banking, commerce and, increasingly, insurance.

自17世纪以来，伦敦的第三大功能就是充当国内和国际证券交易所，负责股票和股份、银行业、商业以及越来越多的保险的交易。

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It was a great deal for the East India Company, since it meant that the company could decide whatever price it wanted for its products.

对东印度公司来说，这是一笔巨大的交易，因为这意味着该公司可以决定自己想要的产品价格。

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Only since the nineteen-sixties have scientists begun to understand that the Earth is a great, living structure.

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There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

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So reception history has been a kind of partly theoretical, partly scholarly field, one that's really still flourishing and has been ever since the early work in the great Konstanz seminars of Iser, Jauss and others.

因此感受历史成了一个,半理论半学术的领域，在康斯坦的讨论会上,在伊瑟尔，姚斯和其他人的早期影响下,接受史一直处于繁盛期。

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Since the last credit crisis was the worst that has been experienced since the Great Depression, it should come as no surprise that this recovery is having an extremely difficult time gaining traction.

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Is it continuing in the direction that has led to 4.3 million jobs created as we recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression, or is it going back to the policies that precipitated, caused the worst recession since the Great Depression?

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What President Obama is convinced of and what he firmly believes the American people are convinced of is that the policies that significantly contributed to the worst recession since the Great Depression, the ideas that were tried and failed are not the ideas and the policies that we need to adopt now as we are recovering from that terrible recession.

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