Such booms have worked magic to keep "the lucky country" out of trouble before.

正是矿业的繁荣神奇地使这“幸运国度”在全球经济衰退的最初没有受到影响。

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I am proud of the uniform, the country in which we are so very lucky to live and the ability to fight for the right to keep that freedom.

我为这身服装而自豪，我因为生活在这个国家而感到幸运，同时我为自己有能力为自由而战感到骄傲。

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I'll be lucky if there's one woman in the whole country who wants to give up cash for life - and I might not even fancy her.

如果整个国家里有一个女子愿意终生放弃现金，那我就幸运了——我可不会只是喜欢她。

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Today,the happy-go-lucky sponge has fans in almost every country on the planet.

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But he says for this year Yemen's economic prospects are poor, and the country would be lucky to grow at half the rate the Central Bank has projected.

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So, too, was Donald Horne's caustic polemic, The Lucky Country, which is arguably post-war Australia's most influential work of non-fiction.

BBC: Essential reading for new arrivals in Australia

To make more sense of Australia's ongoing culture wars, I would read Horne's The Lucky Country and Paul Sheehan's 1998 book Among the Barbarians.

BBC: Essential reading for new arrivals in Australia

So wrote journalist Donald Horne at the start of the 1960s, but like so much of his opus, The Lucky Country, it could have been penned today.

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