The ready availability of coal inspired William Murdoch during the 1790s to develop the first new form of nighttime illumination to be discovered in a millennium and a half.

威廉·默多克在18世纪90年代受到煤炭的易得性的启发，发明了1500年里的第一种新的夜间照明方式。

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This is The Wind Among the Reeds, and the author is William Butler Yeats, published in 1899, on the verge of the new century.

这是的《苇间风》，作者是威廉·巴特勒·叶芝，在新世纪即将到来之际的1899年出版。

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But Prince William has shown that he can be a new kind of king.

但是威廉王子已经表明，他可以成为一种新的国王。

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So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.

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This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.

这是威廉巴特勒叶芝的《苇间风》,在新世纪即将到来之际的1899年出版。

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The book was called Lady Sings the Blues. A friend at the New York Post newspaper, William Dufty, helped her write the book.

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New York Times sports columnist William Rhoden has a new book, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete.

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William Gardner, New Hampshire's secretary of state, notes that eight out of every ten new voters in his state (many of them young and well-educated) register as independents.

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And it comes after William and his new wife, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, were met with huge and enthusiastic crowds during their visit last year to the United States and Canada.

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