Either before or now, the pursuit of a better life has been a belief in human hearts, the 2008 Olympic Games, the Expo also.

不管是以前还是现在，追求更美好的生活一直是人类心中的信仰，2008奥运会是，世博会亦是。

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The odds are high it will also cut its short-term interest rate, now 2%, to 1.5% either at or before its policy meeting at the end of October.

美联储在十月底的政策会上或之前，下调短期利率（从现在的2％调至1.5％）的可能性很高。

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The -d option can also tell you what the date will be relative to the current date — either a number of days or weeks from now, or before now (ago).

d选项还可以告诉您，相对于当前日期若干天的究竟是哪一天，从现在开始的若干天或若干星期以后，或者以前(过去)。

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About two-thirds of the ethnic-Serb minority (which stood at 180, 000, or about a tenth of the populace before the war started) has now left, either fleeing or anticipating revenge from ethnic Albanians who lost homes and loved ones at the hands of Serb forces and Serb neighbours.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo

The President held a two-point advantage before the debate and is now either trailing by one point in the latest Rasmussen numbers or by three in the WeAskAmerica survey.

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Sanjay Kaul, a cardiologist at Cedars Sinai Hospital in L.A. who has been an FDA consultant, says the FDA should now require all cholesterol medicines to either do a big study showing they prevent heart problems before approval or only grant conditional approval and then demand the big study.

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