But overseas orders took off three years ago, after energy prices began rising.

但在三年前能源价格上涨后海外订单开始增多。

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During the next 50 years, she took off many times, sometimes impetuously, always for adventure beyond the bounds of conventional English life.

接下来的五十年，她无数次地出发开始那些超越传统英式生活的冒险远行，有时候她的准备未全就匆匆出发了。

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The field took off about 10 years ago, after physicists developed mathematical models to explain some of the network phenomena sociologists had observed.

在物理学家建立了一些数学模型去解释一些社会学家观察到的网络现象之后，这个领域大概在十年前开始兴起。

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To earn the one hundred thirty thousand dollars that Clarence Berry took off the ship, that man would have had to work for two hundred fifty years!

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It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

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After decades of relatively unspectacular growth, compared to the east Asian economies, India's economy suddenly took off three or four years ago, growing at 8% or more a year.

经历了几十年的相对高速发展后，与其他东亚经济体相比，印度经济三或四年前突然开始腾飞,以每年8%甚至超过%,8%的速度增长。

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His prison term would have been about 19 years after the court took off 11 years for the time he has already served behind bars.

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By the time the enabling bill has ground its way through Parliament to set up Ofcom, it could be 2003 a good seven years after the Internet took off and five years after the launch of digital television in Britain.

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She put most of it on her credit cards, which took years to pay off.

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