Given all the evidence above it appears that there were benefits from the plague but these were only slight compensations for a gross mass of human life from a tragic disease.

通过上述的论据，好像那场瘟疫也有好处，但是对饮这场悲剧性的疾病所丧生的生命而言，那些仅仅是轻微的补偿。

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To raise interest rates under these conditions would be to undermine any chance of doing better; it would mean, in effect, accepting mass unemployment as a permanent fact of life.

在这些国家提高利率将阻止进一步提高的机会，实际上，这就意味着这些国家的普遍高失业率将会成为一个无法改变的事实。

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The most common form of bread in Americaethe mass-produced white, soft doughy bread in plastic bags with a shelf life of weeks is likely a major component of obesity and diabetes.

在美国最普遍的就是这种大量生产的白色、松软的面包，装在塑料袋中，一周保质期，它就是造成肥胖和糖尿病的主要元凶。

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The press in particular best to be honest about it has a keen appetite for political upset, whereas the mass of the country prefers a quiet life.

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Couple such capability with new satellite measurements (America's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 is due to launch in a few years) and better measurements of the mass of plant life in forests and other ecosystems, and the planet's greenhouse-gas credits and debits will surely be understood far better.

ECONOMIST: Greenhouse-gas monitoring

But Holy Week, the Christian festival that commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, is a solemn celebration, and once mass begins, a calm settles over the congregation.

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