He didn't want to fly to Florence, which would have required connecting from Milan and, in his opinion, increased the odds of his luggage getting lost.

他当然不想坐飞机到佛罗伦萨，因为这样不仅要从米兰转机，而且他觉得，发生行李丢失的机率也会增加。

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New Zealand recently suspended a law under which Internet service providers would have been required to crack down on illicit copying.

新西兰最近暂停施行一项法律，根据该法律，互联网服务提供商将被要求对非法复制行为采取严厉措施。

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They concluded that to achieve the required export growth, China would have to reduce prices, which would be increasingly hard to manage, whether through productivity gains or a squeeze in profits.

他们得出结论，为了达到既定的出口增长，通过扩大产量或薄利多销的策略，中国会降低非常难以控制的物品价格。

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The latter, which would have required a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, was rejected by a bipartisan vote of 58-40.

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