The OECD last year set out to explain why service industries were so poor in Japan.

去年OECD成员国开始解释为什么日本的服务行业为什么如此的弱。

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This journey home is also a return to spiritual roots; a time of year set aside to pay respects to the ancestors and to thank the gods that watch over them.

返乡之旅尊崇的是一种归根的观念——在年终岁末，祭拜祖先，感谢上苍的眷顾。

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The break from work really set me up for the new year.

放下工作稍事休息，的确使我更有精力在新的一年大干一场了。

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Instead,the leaders said they will order their finance ministers to develop a set of "indicative guidelines" early next year.

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He determined the year by designating the zones; He set up three constellations for each of the twelve months.

他指派区域来划定年份;,他划分了十二个月份，每个月份有三个星座。

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And so if you know what patterns of zeroes and ones to look for as you will yourselves this year in that forensics problem set, can you recover a lot of that data?

如果你知道如何去发现,这些0和1的排列规则,这也是套题中的问题，你就能恢复把这些大量数据恢复？

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He reached the semi-finals in Barcelona and this year set a new Northern Irish record at 100 metres.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg last year set a goal of recycling 30 percent of the city's household trash by 2017, up from about 15 percent now.

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With less than a year set for general elections, this silence does not bode well for the future of Mr Singh's government and the Congress party.

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