A spate of strikes has thrown a spanner into the workshop of the world.

一连串的罢工已给这个世界工厂带来了麻烦。

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There has been a spate of robberies in the area recently.

最近这一地区接连发生了多起抢劫案。

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A spate of food scandals is blamed for many of the conversions.

一连串的食品丑闻被指责为许多往素食的转换的原因。

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And,the spate of suicides at the Foxconn plant in southern China also helped focus attention on wages and conditions in Chinese factories.

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After he'd published all of his major poems, he began publishing a spate of works that attempted to re-create British culture from the ground up.

在发表了他的所有主要诗作后，他开始大量发表其他著作,试图以这些作品完全重建英国文化。

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This was one of the reasons the credit rating agencies began their recent spate of downgrades.

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But since last September, the two companies have been involved in a bitter spate of lawsuits.

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There were a spate of crashes between 2006 and 2009 in which passengers were injured.

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