As the news broke Friday, conservative pundits were in high-gear robotically regurgitating the primary talking point that Obama won the award simply for not being George W. Bush.

当消息在周五传出的时候，保守派专家谈论的焦点是奥巴马赢得大奖的原因是由于他与布什做的不一样。

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Faced with six months 'notice, we switched into high gear and began collecting data about premises in various buildings in selected districts we were considering for our relocation.

面对六个月限期搬离的通知，我们紧锣密鼓地开始在几个选定区域搜集办公大厦的资料。

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This wastage can be as high as 70% for gear blanks, and even 90% in the case of aircraft structural parts.

齿轮毛坯材料损耗为70%，而飞机结构零件的材料损耗甚至达90%。

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The next over, bowled by Yasir Arafat, was the one in which Pietersen went from first gear to overdrive, marmalising a chest-high full toss for four and smashing the next ball high into the pavilion.

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The flurry of deals has slowed, but not the orders for high-tech imaging gear used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

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No surprise that contract manufacturers for electronic gear have sprung up in Malaysia and China, where skill levels are high but labor costs only a fourth what it does in the U.S. GM's former parts-making subsidiary, Delphi, which opened its first plant in Mexico in 1978, now has 55 plants there.

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