Most of the factors they listed one or two centuries ago are still important today.

他们在一两个世纪以前所列出的因素中，大多数至今仍是很重要的。

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Britain bounded ahead in textile production two centuries ago, and established firms have been looking over their shoulder ever since.

两个世纪以前，英国在纺织行业处于领先，老字号公司从那时起就开始提防别人。

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Two centuries ago an English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely resembled some words in Greek and Latin.

两个世纪前，在印度当法官的一位英国人注意到，梵文中有一些词与希腊语、拉丁语中的一些词极为相似。

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The report says only two percent of the grasslands that existed two centuries ago remain today.

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As with most aspects of the arts today, ivory towers are so two centuries ago.

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Two centuries ago, sailing ships from Britain, France and America ruthlessly hunted whales among the islands.

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And they face a dilemma not so different from the one their predecessors faced two centuries ago.

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