I started down the dark, twisting stairway with Fortunato close behind me.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Do nothing, close your loop and then down here do something.

不做什么，关闭你的循环，然后到这里做点事情。

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and you close the door, and you stand up sleeping like this because there's no place to lay down.

然后你关上门，就像这样站着睡觉，因为没有地方躺。

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Saturday's protest took a more confrontational stance as Red Shirt protesters demanded troops stationed close to the rally site in central Bangkok to stand down.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

He's going to close it back down here with death and he's going to close it back down using a process that we frequently encounter in music, and that is this idea of dissonance resolving to consonance.

他要描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,他要用一种我们常在音乐中邂逅的方式,描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,这就是使不和谐音解构为和音,这个理念

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Safdar Abbassi,a senator and long time PPP member who had close ties to Benazir Bhutto, told VOA that Mr.Zardari's recent actions to crack down on anti-government protests have provoked dissension within the party.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

One of them was that the U.S. Government had shut down the construction industry during the war, so they didn't build any houses for close to five years; obviously we had a shortage of housing.

其一就是美国政府在战争时期,停止了建筑行业,那时他们已经快五年没有建造任何房屋了,显然,房屋资源是短缺的

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t the new deal, s over , by the unemployment is down to close to zero by the middle of the War.

如果不是新政，If，it，wasn’,萧条结束，it’,失业率也降低到接近零点,在二战中的时候。

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