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Meanwhile, chain pubs and café-bars are opening at a rate of two a week.

与此同时，连锁酒吧和咖啡酒吧的数量以每周两家的速度增加。

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“The World Is What It Is” (the severe opening words of “A Bend in the River”) is fully worthy of its subject, with all the dramatic pacing, the insight and the pathos of a first-rate novel.

这本《如此人 世间》（The World Is What It Is：取自奈保尔小说《河湾》严厉的开场白），完全是典型的奈保尔风格，紧张戏剧性的节奏，一流小说的深刻洞察和感伤悲悯。

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That might allow further interest-rate cuts, opening the prospect of more jobs for voters.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

An interest-rate gap is opening between currencies like the dollar and the yen on the one hand, where monetary policy is likely to remain ultra-loose, and higher-yielding ones like the euro on the other.

ECONOMIST: Currencies

Rankin and Trent Johnston were bowling highly-disciplined opening spells to well-organised fields and, with the Sri Lankans failing to lift the run-rate above four-an-over, Ireland were rewarded with the wicket of Sangakkara.

BBC: Sri Lanka see off valiant Ireland