Once I got into the cab with a young lorry driver who careered along at 90mph to frighten other drivers, but I wasn't scared.

一次我坐进了一个年轻的货车司机的驾驶室，他以90英里的时速猛冲来吓唬其他司机，但是我并不害怕。

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The fastest land animal in the world, cheetahs once thrived in Africa and Asia, but lion predation haunts their young, and farms and ranching have reduced their habitat.

猎豹是陆地上速度最快的动物，曾在亚非大地上大量生长，但它们的幼兽常为狮子等捕食，栖息场所也因不断增加的农庄和牧场而缩减。

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Stuart's very different from my first husband - he's half bald, but he reminds me that he once was a young thing with a full head of hair.

斯图亚特很不同于我的第一个丈夫。 他一半的头发都掉光了，但他却时常对我说他年轻时满头乌发。

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He had suffered an aneurysm once before as a young child, but had made a full recovery following treatment, with an optimistic assurance of a very slim chance of it ever happening again.

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But, for those who once assumed the young would never learn to write, it is a modest reason for hope.

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Yet increasingly, relatively humdrum, time-consuming tasks, which would once have been foisted on ambitious but inexperienced young recruits, working long hours to earn their spurs in Wall Street or the City of London, are, thanks to the miracle of fibre-optic cable, foisted on their lower-paid Indian counterparts.

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