路开始通行在1817年，甚至比国家成立前早几年使用。

The road was begun in 1817, a few years before the main(Maine) even became a state.

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什么也没找到，商店在今早营业时间前解除了警报。

Nothing was found and the store was given the all-clear by opening time this morning.

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私营部门的工作已经恢复增长——并没有我们希望的那么快，但是这次复苏比前两次复苏要早。

Private job growth has returned — not as fast as we would like, but at an earlier stage of this recovery than in the last two recoveries.

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But in all likelihood Hebrews of an older time, the patriarchal period, the second millennium BCE--they probably weren't markedly different from many of their polytheistic neighbors. Archaeology would suggest that.

但很有可能更早的，西元前2000年族长统治时期的希伯来人，他们可能和其他信仰多神论的异邦人,没有什么太大的不同，这一点考古学会帮我们证明。

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Now, this game, this game of imperfect competition between two firms competing in quantities, was thought up and studied by a French economist called Cournot almost a hundred years before Nash.

这个博弈,这个关于两家公司的产量竞争的博弈,早在纳什出生一百多年前就被,一个法国的经济学家古诺研究过

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Mulciber fell long before Homer because Mulciber fell long before the creation of the earth -- and it's Milton, and it's no other poet before Milton, who's finally able to set the record straight. Milton's insisting here that all of the pagan deities had originally been fallen angels.

莫西伯在荷马出世前就堕落了因为,他早在大地被创造前就堕落了，是弥尔顿，在弥尔顿之前没有别的诗人，能够最终印证这个记录，弥尔顿在这里坚持的是,所有异教神原本都是堕落天使。

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