t was a snowy night, and Robert wasrecalling the time two springs ago when he was determined to paint the familyroom.

在一个雪花飞舞的夜晚，罗伯特想起了两年前的那个春天。 他当时打算粉刷自己的房间。

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So, a couple of weeks ago we proposed to swap two integers, and we couldn't at the time.

那么，几周前，我们提出交换两个整数，然而在那时，我们办不到。

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I held off for a very long time, but I just got mine a month ago. And now I don't know how I live without it.

我拖了好长时间，一个月前才买的。而且现在我不知道离开它该如何生活。

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Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

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If the investigation was not compromised in any way by what came out last night, why didn't it come out a long time ago?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton

But Ms. Evans, who launched the full-time venture six years ago, isn't your average tech-savvy entrepreneur.

WSJ: Starting a Business Later in Life

It's an issue that has been debated by academics for a while, though many wish Mr Osborne or his predecessor had sorted it out a long time ago, when the move didn't look quite so convenient.

BBC: Why the Bank held off spending