The equipment in American studios was more advanced than anything in Britain, which had led the Beatles' great rivals, the Rolling Stones, to make their latest album, "Aftermath", in Los Angeles.

美国录音室的设备比英国的任何设备都要先进，这使得甲壳虫乐队的劲敌——滚石乐队——得以在洛杉矶制作他们的最新专辑《后果》。

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More than half of the people in a recent survey on the Internet answered these questions incorrectly: How many countries make up Great Britain? What is the world's largest desert?

最近在互联网上进行的一项调查中，超过一半的人错误地回答了以下问题：大不列颠由多少个国家组成？世界上最大的沙漠是什么？

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Others say that those who fail to make good in Britain are ashamed to go back to their families.

也有人说，那些没法在英国获得成功的人没脸回去见他们的家人。

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"If we are to defeat this vicious insurgency and by doing so make Britain and the world a safer place, then we must persist with our operations in Afghanistan.

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Under U.K. law, athletes are taxed on their annual income including sponsorship deals in proportion to the number of appearances they make in Britain.

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There is not room for two cable news networks to make money in Britain, for example.

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This is because the tax breaks make it some 23% cheaper to make a movie in Britain than in America, according to Oxford Economics.

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