爱迪生的电灯在1880年获得专利，成为当时市场上最受欢迎的发明，为大众带来了光明。

Edison's electric lamp, patented in 1880 was the marketplace's favorite, bringing light to the masses.

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一步一步地，他从做一个重要的任务上升到做另一个重要的任务，直到他成为当时最好的士兵之一。

Step by step, he rose from one important task to another, until he became one of the best soldiers of that time.

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它差点成为当时地球上最大的人造建筑物。

It would be the largest man-made structure on Earth.

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So the Bank of England then became a kind of regulator of these banks and it would also loan to them when they were in trouble.

所以，英格兰银行当时,成为了众多银行的管制者,并且在它们陷入危机时,向它们发放贷款。

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who will help me out？ They find themselves surrounded, and Paris is--it's nothing like- - it's one-third the size of London at this same time, or at any other time, but it has a huge circumference.

谁来帮我下,他们发现自己被包围了,巴黎成为,巴黎已经大不如前,它仅仅相当于,当时或其他时期伦敦规模的三分之一,还是一个巨大的牢笼

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