周日的生死大战，荷兰更应摆摆谱，显显老资格，他们在历史上曾经两度止步于决赛的门口（1974年和1978年），当时，他们与对手相比，的确技逊一筹，乏善可陈（对手分别是德国和阿根廷分别）。
Of Sunday's contestants, the Dutch have the greater pedigree, having twice lost the final (in 1974 and 1978) to palpably inferior sides (Germany and Argentina respectively).
石油价格上涨，乙醇竞争力再显（在拇指原则中，当美国石油价格达到3美元一加仑时，乙醇就有利可图，现在加州的油价刚好达到这个水平）。
As oil prices rise, ethanol starts to be competitive again (as a rule of thumb, ethanol is profitable when petrol costs $3 a gallon in America, a level it has just reached in California).
母亲这一下可真得意：她可以趁着这个嫁出去的女儿没有充军到北方去之前，把她当作宝贝似的显给街坊四邻看看。
And their mother had the satisfaction of knowing that she should be able to shew her married daughter in the neighbourhood, before she was banished to the North.
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