市长在学校运动会那天颁发了奖项。

The mayor gave away the prizes at the school sports day.

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两位部长在这个问题上出现了分歧。

A division has opened up between the two ministers over the issue.

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这些鱼生长在海边浅水水域。

These fish are found in shallow waters around the coast.

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And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

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I don't know if you know this, but for a long time when movies took place in New York,

我不清楚你是否知道，很长一段时间，电影里发生在纽约的场景，

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We looked last time at Saint Peter's declamatory speech in Lycidas, and we spent a lot of time on it.

我们上次读过了圣彼得在“利西达斯“中说的话，花了很长时间研究这段话。

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