Macfarlane had wondered for a long time how the Industrial Revolution came about.

麦克法兰早就想知道工业革命是如何发生的。

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The Gutenberg revolution, as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated.

正如我们现在所知，古腾堡革命花了很长时间；它的影响仍处于争议中。

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There are also concerns about the long-term sustainability of farming practices encouraged by the Green Revolution in both the developed and the developing world.

对于发达国家和发展中国家而言，绿色革命鼓励的农业实践的长期可持续性也令人担忧。

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Last Thursday,Mr.Obama renewed the long-standing injunctions imposed in the early days of the Islamic Revolution against financial dealings with Iran.

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The majority of Englishmen were calling for the return of their nation's rightful monarch. It wasn't long before the revolution failed and the Stuart monarchy was restored.

大部分英国人都在呼吁国家的,合法君主归位，不久,革命失败了，斯图亚特王朝复辟。

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After all, as long as the computer revolution keeps charting a crazy course, programmers will continue to rely on O'Reilly's scribes to explain it to them.

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One of Les Mis's student revolutionaries, Gavroche, takes refuge in the massive Elephant of the Bastille, the model for a never-built statue that stood in Place de la Bastille in the first half of the 19th century. (For the film, it was recreated at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England.) Though the pachyderm is long gone, the July Column commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 now stands in its place.

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Although the process was unwieldy, those who worked on Ceefax during the pioneering days were conscious that they were taking part in an information revolution of some magnitude long before the world wide web arrived on the scene.

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