Think of something as seemingly benign as the cellphone—we have microfinance and text-based social networking at one end of the spectrum, and improvised explosive devices at the other.

想想类似手机这种看似无害的东西吧——一方面，手机可以用来进行小额信贷和基于文本的社交，但另一方面，它也可以成为临时制作的爆炸装置。

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When it emerged towards the end of the 1980s as a purely text-based medium, it was seen as a tool to pursue knowledge, not pleasure.

20世纪80年代末，当它作为一种纯文本媒介出现时，它被视为一种追求知识而非快乐的工具。

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Usually characters change as the story goes on, so the theme you get at the beginning might not be true at the end! For this reason, you need to read through the whole text first.

通常角色会随着故事的发展而变化，所以你在开始时读到的主题在结尾时可能不是真的！出于这个原因，你需要先通读整篇课文。

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One of the most remarkable things about this text is that it's invariably the soaring, libertarian rhetoric that we end up noting, that we end up remembering, and that sticks with us.

这文章中最值得注意的一点是,这不断激增的翱翔的自由的修辞，让我们，最终注意到最终记住，最终永不会忘记。

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We're continually being prevented from reading the text to get to the end.

我们总是觉得想快些读到结尾。

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That means getting a new text ready by the end of 2007.

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Last year over 1 million text messages were sent across our service (10x growth YoY) and end-consumers using text messages and a hotline provided anonymous tips that led to the recovery of stolen anti-malaria drugs.

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However, the draft conclusions are likely to change substantially before a final text is adopted at the end of the summit.

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