For many, their long-awaited homecoming was a bitter disappointment.

对很多人来说，他们期盼已久的返乡成了一件令人伤心失望的事。

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It's a long-awaited breakthrough for the International Wushu Federation (IWF), which made applications to the International Olympic Committee (100) in 2001, 2008 and 2011, but failed.

这是国际武术联合会（IWF）期待已久的突破，而它曾在2001年、2008年和2011年分别向奥委会（100人）发出申请，但均以失败告终。

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The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) finally has a date set for the long-awaited arrival of a pair of giant pandas.

苏格兰皇家动物保护协会最终为这一对久违的大熊猫的到来设定了最终日期。

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The international community must support stable regions, for example Puntland, and offer long-awaited development incentives in order to attract the attention of other Somali regions that see the benefits as counter-weight to joining extremists,".

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While this ended a long awaited search for a new leader, it did not excite the market.

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Positive signs keep coming - this week Treasury and Department for Transport officials went to Cambridge for serious discussions on the long-awaited plans for widening the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.

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On August 5, 2011, the IRS published long-awaited guidance for executors of estates of people who died in 2010.

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