This decision ends a disastrous period during which Whitehall gave the impression of hoping the EU would go away, if it were ignored long enough.

这个决定终结了梦靥般的日子：欧盟长时间地忽视英国，以致英国对欧盟施压，希望脱离欧盟的束缚。

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In the rainy season it would rise from twenty to thirty feet, carry away all the filth, and cover the land with silt which gave nourishment to the peasants along its bank.

雨季的时候，河水会从二十英尺深涨到三十英尺，带走所有的污秽，将淤泥覆盖在土地上，这给沿岸的农民们带来了食物。

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You see, it gave the ginkgo tree, yellow yellow leaves like handfuls of small fan, fan which fan, fan away the heat in the summer.

你看，它把黄色给了银杏树，黄色的叶子像一把把小扇子，扇哪扇哪，扇走了夏天的炎热。

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"They kept the ball and we gave away a few penalties which made it difficult for us, " said Henry.

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As well as raising money for governments, which previously just gave spectrum away, auctions ensure that the spectrum is allocated efficiently and goes to the companies that value it the most.

ECONOMIST: Mobile telecoms