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Yet ink on paper is lacking in one of the essential traits of computer displays: instantaneous erasure and reuse, millions of times without wearing out.
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不过，电脑萤幕有一项基本特质：随时可以删除再重写，而且反覆几百万次也不会磨损──这是纸上油墨所不及的。 |
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Yet instead of welcoming this backsliding from reform, union leaders expressed outrage over another idea: to ensure that pension costs are not increased inexorably by rising life expectancy.
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联盟阵线的党魁们不但没有对这个历史倒退型的改革计划叫好，反而对另一观点表达了强烈的愤慨：必须保证养老金计划的支出不能由于人的寿命而无限制增加。 |
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Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?
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难道他不是更在意他的颤抖？ |
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Yet is this because sex kills brain cells, or because kids who are already bored at school look harder for ways to amuse themselves?
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但这是因为性杀死了脑细胞，还是因为已经厌倦了学校生活的年轻人在更努力地寻找自娱的方式呢？ |
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Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
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书17:13及至以色列人强盛了、就使迦南人作苦工、没有把他们全然赶出。 |
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Yet it can be a weapon.
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不过，它也可能是一种武器。 |
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Yet it ended in a monumental victory.
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最终，它以胜利而载入历史史册。 |
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Yet it hasn't happened and is increasingly unlikely to.
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然而，这没有发生过，而且越来越不可能发生。 |
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Yet it is easy to be misled when thinking about competition among countries.
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但在思考国家之间的竞争时，这种想法很容易成为误导。 |
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Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S.,when the Standard Oil trust was broken up.
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我的理解是：然而，当标准石油的信用被打破的时候，今天很难设想一个少数几个公司的联合能够重新创造相同的对竞争的威胁，而这竞争的威胁在近一个世纪以前的美国是恐惧的。 |
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Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the US， when the Standard Oil trust was broken up.
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但是很难想像当今的几个石油公司的合并是否会重新造成约100年前美国标准石油公司对竞争造成的同样的威胁，那时由于人们对该公司的这种担心而导致了它最终的解散。 |
