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WHEN does dating begin for teenagers in America?
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在美国，十几岁的少年什么时候开始与异性约会呢？ |
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WHEN he signed a security pact with Australia this week, Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, at a stroke doubled the number of Japan's allies.
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日本首相安倍晋三与澳大利亚签署了协定，大笔一挥之后，日本的军事同盟国数量增加了一倍。 |
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WHEN in August last year Britain's security services uncovered an alleged plot to smuggle the liquid components of a bomb onto an aircraft at Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport almost ground to a halt as additional passenger checks were o
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去年八月，当英国安全机构发现据称（有人）私自携带炸弹的液体组分登上希思罗机场的飞机的阴谋时，这个全球最繁忙的国际机场因为得令对乘客进行附近检查而几乎陷于停顿。 |
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WHEN in doubt about energy policy, build more windmills.
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（当人们在怀疑能源政策时，他们建了更多的风车。 |
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WHEN investment banks talked about exotic assets in the 1990s, they generally meant tiger-cub or puma economies such as Vietnam or Peru.
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二十世纪九十年代当国际银行谈论金融衍生资产时，一般意味着诸如越南或秘鲁的幼虎或狮豹经济。 |
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WHEN it comes to inseminating cows and sows, no bull or boar need travel.
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若要令母牛或母猪受孕，没有必要兴师动众将公牛或公猪运来。 |
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WHEN oil prices last approached $80 a barrel, a year ago, pundits put it down to the “fear factor”.
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一年以后，油价最终到了80美元一桶，学者们认为这只是“恐怖因素”在作祟。 |
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WHEN the Americans and their friends in the European Union last week withdrew a proposed resolution on the future of Kosovo from the UN Security Council, it was clear that Russia and Serbia had won a hard-fought diplomatic battle.
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当美国人和他们欧盟朋友们上周撤销了一个联合国安理会关于科索沃未来决议时，显而易见，俄罗斯和塞尔维亚赢得了一场艰难的外交战争。 |
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WHEN the British government privatised its nuclear-power arm, British Energy, in 1996, it launched the shares on an eager market at ￡2.03.
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当英国政府在1996年宣布其核能部门“英国能源”开始私营化的时候，后者在股票市场上的价格为每股￡2.03。 |
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WHEN the Middle East is ablaze, oil prices near record highs, the American economy cooling and the climate warming, it is hard to get excited about the beaching of trade talks.
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时值中东烽火通明、油价几近历史最高、美国经济趋冷以及气候变暖之际，贸易谈判的搁浅已很难激起人们的兴趣。 |
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WHEN the internet took off in the 1990s, it was demonised as a steaming cauldron of porn.
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互联网在上世纪90年代兴起时被人诟病为淫秽内容的大熔炉。 |
