"The villagers are at the gates of the castle with burning torches," says one compensation consultant.

一个薪酬顾问这样描述：“村民们手持燃烧的火把已经到了城门口了”。

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World of Warcraft, released over two years ago, isn't just going strong, but looks prepared to come out of the gates flying in 2007 with the release of the Burning Crusade expansion in mid-January.

两年前发行的“魔兽世界”，不止是越来越强势，在一月中旬资料片燃烧的远征推出后，应会在2007年更突飞猛进。

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At the time, in journalism schools and conferences, the villain of new media was Matt Drudge, the Genghis Khan of the Internet, burning the gates and the power of gatekeeping.

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We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.

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Picture Bill Gates in the 1970s, with an SAT score of 1590 and a burning ambition.

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