It's sometimes hard to imagine how bad things were in the thirties.

有的时候很难想像三十年代的情况有多糟。

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She became quite a notable director in the thirties and forties.

她在20世纪的三四十年代成为一位名导演。

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He lived in Canada in the thirties.

三十年代他住在加拿大。

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"And so they would travel to places where certainly white people in the thirties and forties would not work too much in black communities, because there was so much antagonism between black and white at that time racism toward African Americans.

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So this is, in effect, the backdrop in which in the American academy--influenced, - as we'll now see, by certain trends in the British academy-- arose in the thirties and in the forties.

所以实际上,这就是当时美国学术界，受英国学术界影响-,在三四十年代崛起的背景。

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The interesting thing is, actually everyone calls it the Paulson proposal, but it was apparently mostly written by a young man who is in his early thirties You may not consider that young but I think that is young.

有趣的是，虽然每个人都称那个改革为鲍尔森计划，但很明显这个计划大部分是由一个青年男子写的,他才刚刚30岁,也许你们不认为30岁很年轻,但是我觉得是。

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John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member who ran the Siemens plant in Nanking, China, in the thirties.

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Julianne Moore plays the poor Irish beauty Barbara Daly, who, in the thirties, marries Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), a passively egotistical heir to a great fortune.

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Pre the introduction of the iPod Apple sold in the thirties (with a double digits valuation only because it carried a lot of cash on the balance sheet).

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