There used to be transport problems, now though there are new train links and better roads, but it may be that some smaller towns inland remain not very well connected, is that OK?

过去存在交通问题，尽管现在有新的火车线路和更好的道路，但一些内陆的小城镇与外界可能仍然没有很好的连接，这样可以吗？

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There is no direct flight serving these two destinations now, while it takes around 5 hours to get there by car.

现在没有直飞这两个目的地的航班，而开车到那里大约需要5个小时。

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There was frantic blame-shifting when everything in Asia seemed to be going wrong; now there is a race to claim credit when some things have started to go right.

当亚洲的一切似乎都出了问题时，就出现了疯狂推卸责任的现象；现在，当一些事情开始朝着好的方向发展时，就产生了一场争夺信誉的竞赛。

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Now there is worry about a new threat headed in their direction in the wind a fungus that destroys wheat crops.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

There was nature; now there is culture, which is very much like an event or birth in the older sense.

有了自然，然后就有了文明，这就像从前说的发展或者诞生。

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bug It's not true now. If there is a bug in the program it's there for only one reason.

如果程序中有一个,那一定是有原因的，是你通过例如犯了。

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And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something.

WSJ: Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative

Not only is there no clean coal now, there is no practical technology on the horizon that will produce electricity by burning coal in a manner than is cost competitive and eliminates emissions.

FORBES: Romney Has It Wrong, Coal Is A Sell And Tesla Is A Buy

Or there is the now de rigeur tumblr as there is for any either important or trivial world event.

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