Amazon last week announced sales of ebooks on its US site had outnumbered hardbacks for the first time, stunning casual observers, even if it had not been entirely unexpected in the trade.
上周亚马逊声称其在美国市场售出电子书的数量第一次超越了精装书，这震惊了漫不经心的观察家，但在行业内部这事并不是完全出人意料的。
There were the first signs of trouble in paradise last year, however, with prime property in certain areas in Ireland and the US showing a fall in price.
不过，随着爱尔兰和美国某些地区的最优地产出现价格下跌，去年出现了“天堂里的烦恼”的最初信号。
Within minutes we left the last human developments behind us, and we rolled for hours that first evening past desert scrub of acacia and gum trees and comically steepled termite hills.
几分钟之内我们就把有人居住的地区抛到了后面，傍晚的几个小时里，我们经过的沙漠中可以看见洋槐和橡胶树丛，还有怪模怪样的尖塔形白蚁树。
Mr Rosenberg, one of the most bearish analysts on Wall Street, last week reduced his forecasts for US economic growth in the first quarter of this year to 1.8 per cent from 2.2 per cent.
作为华尔街最悲观的分析人士之一，罗森伯格上周把自己对今年首季度美国经济增长率的预期从2.2%调低至1.8%。
Last autumn, scientists in the US published a first draft of the woolly mammoth's genome, which is thought to be about 80% complete.
去年秋天美国科学家首次发布了长毛象基因组80%的测序。
The updated version of the Apple's iPad first appeared in stores across the US last Friday.
最新的苹果iPad2于上个星期五在美国各专卖店里率先发售。
The US, for the first time since 2005, has surpassed Russia in positive ratings, with an average of 40% compared with 35% last year.
2005年以来，美国的正面支持率第一次超过俄罗斯，40%的正面评价，去年这一数据只有35%。 但是其反面评价比率仍有43%，低于2008年的47%。
For a lot of us, it's the last thing we interact with before going to sleep and the first thing we check when we wake up.
对于我们多数人而言，睡前最后一件事与醒来第一件事都是查看手机。
At first, the director was trying to be supported, but at last, he refused to help us because this centre belonged to France Embassy in China, so they couldn't do anything out of norm.
起初文化中心馆长态度还比较支持，但最终他还是拒绝帮助我们，声称文化中心隶属于法国使馆，不可以在中国的领土上做太出格的事情。
Defeats against Aston Villa and Fulham gave us an uncomfortable Christmas, and five defeats in the first half of the season is already one more than we had in the whole of last season.
输给维拉和富勒姆让我的圣诞节都没过好，上半赛季就输掉5场比我们上赛季整个还多1场。
For the first half of this year, total bilateral trade has amounted to 129.66 bn US$, increasing 17.8% than the same period of last year.
今年上半年，两国贸易总额为一千二百九十六点六亿美元，同比增长百分之十七点八。
First meal for 6 of us after the Easter Break. This is the last few meals we're gonna have together.
复活节旅行归来以后6个人第一次一起吃饭，以后这样的机会越来越少了。
The number of first-year Indian students enrolled at students at US graduate schools rose 20 per cent though the total enrolment of Chinese students dipped 2 per cent from last year.
美国研究生院录取的一年级印度新生数量增加了20%，但中国学生总数较去年减少了2%。
Last week's announcement of the first US monthly fall in employment for four years has made a cut in interest rates from the Federal Reserve this month a virtual certainty.
美国上周公布月度就业率4年来首次下滑，使美联储(Fed)本月降息已势成必然。
The custodian has informed us the we failed the fire drill the week before last for 2 reasons: first, some of us are not moving quickly enough;
校方管理人员通知我们﹐上上周六（十月二日）的消防演习失败。其原因有二：部分群众没有尽速疏散至安全的地方；
In checking our books, we find that you have purchased from us twice as much the first three months of this year as you did in the first three months of last year.
处于当前情 况下，他本身就说明是最慷慨的价格了。 经查对我们的账目发现，你们今年的头3 个月在我处所购的货物是去年同期的两倍。
Within the last few minutes, the director of the US military's Joint Staff, Vice Admiral William Gortney, has given more details about what he described as the first phase of a multi-phased operation.
过去几分钟，美军指挥官，副将格特尼(William e。Gortney)讲述了多国联合军事行动第一阶段的细节。
My first thought was of the extremely rapid construction cities like Chengdu have seen in the last decade, and how they may not be up to "code". Let us hope that doesn't play out that way…
我的第一个想法是过去的10年内，类似成都的城市在城建方面极限的扩张，且它们的质量如此达不到“标准”。
My first thought was of the extremely rapid construction cities like Chengdu have seen in the last decade, and how they may not be up to "code". Let us hope that doesn't play out that way…
我的第一个想法是过去的10年内，类似成都的城市在城建方面极限的扩张，且它们的质量如此达不到“标准”。
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