For one thing, we're less dependent on oil: America has more than twice the real G.D.P. it had in 1979, but consumes only slightly more oil.

在一方面，我们对石油的倚赖有所减少：美国现在的GDP是1979年的两倍，但是石油消耗只多了一点点。

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One nice thing about Web resources is that they're generally more up-to-date than books, so you can use online reading to supplement your less current reading.

Web参考资料的一个优点是它们的内容一般比书本的内容更新，所以您可以使用在线阅读来补充您从书本中学到的、有点过时的知识。

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But at the moment, there is one thing different, that is, I have got less 'bravery' than a year before, but more calm and ripeness, which can just make me see clearly my real position.

而此时此刻，唯一不同的是我少了一年前时的那份“初生牛犊不怕虎”的气势，却多了一份成熟和稳重，这才使我可以更清楚地看到自己真实的位置。

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So then I got a call from him saying we don't have to worryabout money no more, and I said,"That's good. One less thing."

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For one thing, you can do more with less when it comes to animation.

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For one thing, people are more likely to spend less when they have to hand over something physical, even if it just paper.

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But if there is one thing about which investors can be more or less sure, it is that for the first time in years, official interest rates in America, Europe and Japan are heading in the same direction.

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