另外，古滕贝格还做了一件大事：结束征兵制度，这个曾经是德国战后秩序的一个壁垒。

Mr Zu Guttenberg has done one big thing: ending conscription, which had been a bulwark of Germany's post-war order.

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然而，工作，这个曾经是判断某人所属阶级的一个十分可靠的因素，如今却成了一个误导的因素。

But jobs, which were once a fairly reliable guide to class, have become misleading.

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面对还算慷慨的自愿离职政策，仍然几乎没有员工愿意辞去这个曾经是记者行业最稳 定的工作，因此预计不久之后就会有一场大规模的裁员计划出台。

Carnage is expected soon as dozens of what were once the safest jobs in journalism are axed, since too few of the staff have accepted a generous offer of voluntary redundancy.

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But smallpox was, at one time, one of the most frightening diseases on the planet.

但是天花曾经,是这个星球上最令人恐惧的疾病之一

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And all of a sudden, I moved from being a professor here, which previously had been my greatest opportunity, to leading this very large non-for-profit organization that had both national and international responsibilities.

所以突然间，我从普林斯顿的教授，这曾经是我最大的机遇，变成了这个公益组织的领导者,负有国内和国际的双重责任。

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If so, then what they were was a throne.

若真的这样，那么这个曾经应该是一个宝座。

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