It's the first time a Westerner has been convicted for a drug-related offence in recent years in China.

这是近年来第一次有西方人在中国被判犯有与毒品有关的罪行。

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The unpredictability of global demand and the lag time it takes to add more cows to a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus.

全球需求的不可预测性，以及为了满足需求而增加更多奶牛所需的滞后时间，可能会导致像近期奶酪过剩等事件的发生。

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The unpredictability of global demand and the lag-time it takes to add more cows to a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus.

全球需求的不可预测性，以及为了满足需求而扩大牛群规模所花费的滞后时间，可能会导致最近的奶酪过剩等问题。

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American housing sales,though, have improved in recent months, helped by lower prices and a tax credit for first-time buyers.

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It's happened over the course of millions of years of human evolution, but it's happened also in a relatively recent time frame when we think about the American diet and what people are eating, but also the world diet of course.

它们发生在人类数百万年的演化历程中,在近现代,当我们考虑美国人的食谱,当然也包括全世界的食谱,同样在发生着这些变革

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In more recent times, I have seen... it's a long time ago, but I've seen concerts there.

最近，我看了……那是挺久前的事情了，我在那儿看了演唱会。

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So do many hospitals, as Steven Brill thoroughly described in a recent Time magazine article.

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"Kurosawa tells me to keep my own Chinese character and style, " while embracing the outside world, wrote director Zhang Yimou in a recent Time magazine appreciation.

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In a recent Time Magazine article on the changing role of Ronald McDonald the clown, this point was emphasized, symbolic of the change in a brand once centered on children that has fundamentally widened its focus.

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