"There was a time when they wouldn't do this, when the rule of law meant something," sighs a Western diplomat in Bangkok.

曼谷的西方外交家感慨道“曾经有段时间他们不会这样做，那段时间法律规则还有约束力。”

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"I really thought I understood this market, until I tried to map all of the possible consequences of a breakdown," sighs a bond-market veteran.

一位债券市场资深投资者叹息道：“在我试图想出市场崩盘可能带来的所有后果之前，我着实认为自己了解这个市场。”

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Unfortunately, sighs Edith Harxhi, Albania’s deputy foreign minister, this means that the EU integration process has also stalled.

阿尔巴尼亚副外长伊迪丝•哈克希叹气说，不幸的是、这也意味着阿尔巴尼亚的欧盟一体化进程将再一次停滞不前。

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But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.

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"I can't wait until my birthday this year, " she sighs, and finishes her drink.

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Coming after a run of gloomy statistics, this was the cue for sighs of relief all round.

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