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。

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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。

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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。

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Meanwhile, Iraq is currently awaiting the results of provincial polls held on 20 April - the first elections since the last US troops withdrew at the end of December 2011.

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When the first BlackBerry handsets were unleashed on unsuspecting employees over the last decade they revolutionized the way many of us work.

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What I won't do is return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place, because those theories have been tested and they have failed.

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