If it were a race, then United are dragging their owners behind them like a tractor, while City's owners are providing rocket fuel.

如果这是场拉力赛的话，那曼联就像拖拉机，后面还拽着司机，看看曼城吧，人家司机提供的可是火箭燃料。

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Those innovations, upon which virtually all aspects of contemporary society now depend, were possible because the United States then led the world in mathematics and science education.

当代社会几乎所有方面都依赖这些创新，这些创新之所以成为可能，是因为于当时美国在数学和科学教育方面处于世界领先地位。

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Since then, Chinese buyers have almost stopped buying soybeans from the United States and American soybean farmers are now getting worried.

从那以后，中国买家几乎停止了从美国购买大豆，美国大豆种植者现在开始担心了。

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Union troops quickly moved into Richmond.Then they raised the United States flag over the once proud capital of the Confederacy.

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Suppose somebody said, "Look, I spent 20 years living in France, and then I came back to the United States.

假设某人说,我在法国住了二十年,之后我回到美国

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Then we said, what's the deadest market in the United States?

然后我们问,美国最萧条的市场是哪里

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The incident proved decisive because up until then United had been thwarted by Bolton keeper Jussi Jaaskelainen.

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During that spell United finished third with Arsenal then Chelsea taking the title and then United were runners-up to Chelsea in 2006.

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He then united his company to pursue that goal, with impressive results.

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