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When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950's, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.

在20世纪50年代末汽车影院最受欢迎的时候，美国大约有4000家汽车影院，但如今，这个数字还不到当时的四分之一。

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Even S.& P. noted that given the difficult compromises ahead, the earliest plausible date to begin deficit reduction is late 2013, when the budget for fiscal year 2014 is due.

尽管标普此前已经做出了困难的妥协，最早的可能开始进行消减预算的日期仍迟至2013年，而这也只是对2014年财政预算的消减。

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In the late eighteenth century, Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin,suggested that species evolved from their ancestors.

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It is, in fact, a very deliberate and self-conscious repudiation of that late romantic aesthetic that Yeats's early book, and even the cover of that early book, represents.

实际上，这是一种非常从容不迫有意识的,对早期叶芝的书里体现出的后浪漫审美的抛弃，甚至连早期那本书的封面，都体现出了这种倾向。

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Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

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It's just exasperating that it's so late in the game.

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Right now our start-up date is October 10th, and that's kind of late for the amount of cane that we need to process.

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In most cases it's discovered so late that it's inoperable.

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