The region was in steep decline, but he liked it, dropping his Balliol accent to say “New-cassle” like a local, and finding it fertile ground for his schemes.

这一地区经济急剧下滑，但是他喜欢它，他象当地人一样随口用他的Balliol口音说“New-cassle”，他发现这里是他实施计划的沃土。

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While the average developer faces certain challenges in adding XQuery to his or her repertoire, the learning curve is not very steep or prolonged.

虽然一般开人员要掌握 XQuery 面临着一些困难，但是学习曲线并不很陡峭，也不长。

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Pero walks me to his boutique guesthouse on a steep, tourist-free back lane in Europe's finest fortified port city.

在这个欧洲最精美的堡垒城市里，披罗带我走过陡峭的，游客免进的小巷，前往他的小旅馆。

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The youngster continued his steep learning curve in the third November Test against New Zealand, a 29-9 defeat.

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Cayne had come under intense pressure to take responsibility for his role in steep mortgage-related losses.

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Every afternoon he'd launch it from a steep hill near his cliffside home in Sydney and watch, mesmerized, as it caught the updraft from the Pacific Ocean.

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