Glasgow's year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of a complex series of factors that have turned the city into the powerhouse of art, music and theatre that it remains today.

格拉斯哥成为欧洲文化之都的这一年可以归功于一系列复杂因素。这些因素使得这座城市直到今天都是艺术、音乐和戏剧的动力源泉。

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In one study, light smokers were found to be more than twice as likely to get cataracts as non-smokers.

一项研究表明，轻度烟民患白内障的比例是不吸烟者的两倍以上。

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Some economists think the plan needs to provide as much as one trillion dollars or more to be effective.

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Now,what about those Episcopalians? As one of my friends says, "Those whiskey-palians." They decided to be in the middle.

那些圣公会呢？就像我一个朋友所说的，那些威士忌佩利安，他们决定保持中立。

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They needn't be thought of as vulgar prejudices, one of which is in fact the "prejudice against prejudice."

它们并不一定是粗俗的偏见，这是对偏见的偏见“

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In 2008 there was no contest and it could be as one sided again.

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Otherwise I shall be as one wiped from the map of human existence.

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He was supposed to spend an extra four years in prison for punching a prison officer in the face in 2006, but a clerical error led that sentence to be recorded as one to be served simultaneously with his previous sentences.

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