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Joseph Burns, vice-provost for physical sciences and engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which manages Arecibo, says that belt-tightening could bring the telescope's budget down to the $8 million mark. But he thinks that getting more money from Arecibo's international users, as recommended by the review committee, is not likely. Although about 16% of Arecibo's users are foreign, Burns says that they are spread across the globe.

Joseph Burns，纽约科内尔大学物理和工程学代理院长，表示强制紧缩开支将使望远镜的预算降到8百万，但他认为像审查委员会建议的那样从阿雷西博的国际用户那里获得更多的钱是不太可能的，虽然阿雷西博的使用者中有16%是外国人但他们分散在全球。

The next decade will see almost a reinvention of television --not through improved programs, as many might wish, but through the melding of TV, the computer and the telephone into something almost entirely new .Children of the 21st century will likely be surprised to hear that there were once computers that didn't plug into telephone lines, telephones without video screens and television sets that merely showed programs without viewer interaction.

下一个十年将几乎经历一场电视的再发明棗不是通过象某些人希望的那样改进电视节目，而是通过把电视、计算机和电话融合在一起形成一个几乎全新的东西。21世纪的儿童大概会因听说曾经有不接电话线的计算机、不带视频屏面的电话或只能观看节目而不能交互对话的电视而奇怪。

People in the travel, tourism, entertainment, at work are likely to have already wiped clean dirty shoes can not at this time around with shoe polish, as inconvenient.

人们在出差、旅游、娱乐、上班时都有可能把早已擦干净的皮鞋弄脏，可这时身边没有带鞋油，因为不方便。

I implemented this as a simple means of testing my conditionals - it will likely not be greatly enhanced.

我把这个作为一个简单的测试条件的实现的方法，不大可能再增强功能了。

Now that we're at this stage, we'll be working out what the system specifications for the game are (which, again, as previously hinted, are likely to be pretty close, if not identical, to FM2009) but we also do "speed tests" to see how the game runs, and whether our optimisations have worked.

既然我们已经到了这个阶段，我们将会制定游戏的系统配置要求（再如之前提到的，会非常接近FM2009，但不完全一样）。我们也要做&速度测试&来观察游戏运行情况是否达到了我们的最佳优化。

Now, however, all children continue in "comprehensive" schools, and the eleven-plus determines which courses of study the child will follow.

然而现在，所有的孩子都要在综合学校继续学习，所以这次考试只是决定他们将要学习哪些课程。

Cultivatable land , and led to a general recognition that development must not be carried at the cost of agriculture .

城区的迅速扩大在很多情况下侵占了宝贵的可耕地，使人们普遍认识到发展不能以牺牲农业为代价。