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"It was the stupidest thing this country ever did," former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball said later.

"这是美国做的最愚蠢的决定。"前任海军秘书丹-金柏说道。

Now the Russians recognize that Obama will be very different from his know-nothing predecessor.

现在，俄国人认识到奥巴马将会和他无知的前任大不相同。

He says that plan is in line with traditional Conservative economic policy and at odds with the ideas of its predecessor, the Labor Party.

他说，该计划与传统的保守党经济政策是一致的，而与其前任工党的政策是不一致的。

Still, business method patents were relatively rare until the 1998 State Street decision, after which "a flood of business method patents came through the door," says Jon Dudas, a former director of the Patent Office who is now a partner with Foley Lardner.

然而，商业方法专利在过去相对较少，直到1998年道富银行和信托公司对签记金融集团案判决下达，之后"商业方法专利如洪水般破门而出，"杜达斯说，他是专利局的前任董事，现在是佛雷劳德的合伙人。

Under the previous government, led by the late president's twin brother Jaroslaw, Poland was turning into a laughing-stock.

在已故总统的孪生哥哥罗斯拉夫领导的前任政府统治下，波兰变成了笑柄。

But others, like John Bellinger, the current State Department legal adviser, and his predecessor, William

但另外一些人象约翰·贝林格，现美国国务院法律顾问，和他的前任，威廉姆。

Adams claimed that his decision was motivated instead by a desire to spend more time with his wife and children, the same reason that was given by his predecessor, Deborah Lehr, only five months ago.

亚当斯宣布，他辞职是为了能够有更多时间陪伴妻儿，这与5个月前其前任波若·莱尔的声明是一样的。

Al Leiter, who pitched for the Yankees and the Mets, said sinkerball pitchers have other endearing qualities.

前任大都会、洋基投手Al Leiter表示，下沈球投手有令人喜爱的特质。

For instance, I have been in e-mail correspondence with a friend and former professor who is helping to set up a Western-style liberal-arts college in Pakistan.

举例来说，我已经在电子邮件信件与朋友和前任教授，谁是帮助建立一个西方式的自由-艺术学院在巴基斯坦。

But Britain's hollowed-out manufacturing sector lacks the capacity to produce much of the specialist machinery that such projects require, says David Lindley, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and once a director of Taylor Woodrow, a construction firm.

但英国外强中干的制造业却缺乏生产这些项目所需的大部分专业机械的能力，英国皇家工程院院士和Taylor Woodrow建筑公司的前任主管大卫林德利说。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。