When Young met my mother for the first time, less than a year earlier, he told her we were having fun but that there would be "no cottage, no marriage, and certainly no babies".

扬第一次见我母亲的时候，那是在不到一年前，他对她说我们很开心，但将会是“没有房子、没有婚姻、当然也就没有孩子”。

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Reichenstein argues that tabs were a good solution for an earlier age of the Internet, when users hardly ever had more than ten tabs open at any given time.

Reichenstein 认为标签在互联网早期是一个不错的方案，用户打开的标签页很难超过 10 个。

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Plan to be near the interview spot a lot earlier than when it starts to account for unexpected delays like traffic, and hang around in a nearby coffee shop until it's close to the interview time.

考虑到堵车之类的意外，你还是应该早早到达面试地点附近，在附近的咖啡馆休息下，直到面试时间临近。 。

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When it failed in 1990 it was one of the largest securities firms in the United States, not much smaller in relation to the market at the time than Lehman Brothers was when it collapsed earlier this year.

WSJ: Not Everything Can Be Too Big to Fail

This time China's policymakers are stepping in to cool things down earlier than they did in the early 1990s, when inflation was far higher and investment and credit were growing even faster than today.

ECONOMIST: China's economy