They have been predicting "the fall of America" for years, in the way that Gibbon described the fall of Rome.

以英国历史学家吉本预言罗马帝国衰落的方式，法国人已经预言美国的衰落很多年了。

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One of the most captivating natural events of the year in many areas throughout North America is the turning of the leaves in the fall.

北美许多地区一年中最迷人的自然现象之一是秋天树叶的变色。

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Whereas legal downloads have compensated for around 40% of the fall in CD sales in recent years in America and Britain, in France they have made up for only 19% of the drop.

近几年美国和英国的合法下载大约弥补了40%的CD销售额下降，可法国仅弥补了19%的下降。

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The history prize went to Frederik Logevall for "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " about Vietnam under the French.

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History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.

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So strong is this indirect effect, on his calculations, that the gradual fall in the relative value of America's minimum wage over the past 20 years is capable of explaining 1.5 percentage points of the fall in the country's equilibrium rate of unemployment over the same period.

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