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Despite the urging of Iraq's deputy prime minister, Barham Salih, during a visit to London this week that Britain and America should not "cut and run", Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, conceded to the BBC that future historians might come to judge the invasion as "a foreign-policy disaster".

伊拉克副总理萨勒赫本周访问英国时，呼吁英美两国不要"裁撤驻军"，尽管如此，外交秘书玛格丽特·贝克特向BBC承认，未来的历史学家会给入侵作出这样的评价："一场外交政策导致的灾难"。

Since the mid-1970s, about 50 percent, or 1 million acres (400,000 hectares), of the Kenai Peninsula's adult spruce trees have succumbed to the spruce bark beetle.

自从20世纪70年代中期，大约50％，或100万英亩（400，000公顷），奇奈半岛的成年云杉树已经屈服于云杉树皮甲虫。

A blue-feathered barn swallow, part of the thousands of migratory birds descend on Candaba marsh north of Manila. Thirty years ago the marshes covered some 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) but with the spread of agriculture and urbanisation just 72 hectares remain

这是一只蓝羽家燕，它是马尼拉北部Candaba湿地上成千上万只迁徙鸟儿中的一员。30年前，这些湿地曾占地32，000 公顷（79，000英亩），而如今，由于农业发展加上城市扩张，只余下72公顷了。

Good Evening Mr Barret!I'm from Computer Science Department.

中国大学生最想问英特尔董事长的问题是什么？

However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that–a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

在自己的努力和球探的发掘下，终于为自己赢得了一份签约英超着名俱乐部纽卡斯尔联队的合同，从此要面对完全不同的欧洲联赛舞台。

A quick trolley ride from Center City can take you to one of the nation's oldest — and most lovely — botanical gardens , Bartram's Garden (54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard; 215-729-5281; http://www.bartramsgarden.org/).

任何一家拉斯维加斯的旅馆里的泳池设施都极其豪华(包括最近在曼德勒海弯度假区以及亚克瑟里堡酒店新建的)，然而很少可以与拉斯维加斯火烈鸟酒店的占地15英亩的"热带绿洲"相媲美(888-902-9929； http：//www.flamingolv.com/)。

Such images made Inman happy, as did the following pages wherein Bartram, ecstatic, journeyed on to the Vale of Cowee deep in the mountains, breathlessly describing a world of scarp and crag, ridge after ridge fading off blue into the distance, chanting at length as he went the names of all the plants that came under his gaze as if reciting the ingredients of a powerful potion.

这派景象让英曼感到心旷神怡。后面几页是巴川姆游历群山环绕下的考维谷时所见所闻，无不令人心驰神往。作者一口气描绘了一个悬崖峭壁，层峦叠嶂，山峦与天际一线的世界。还不厌其详列出他所有见到的植物的名字，如数家珍。

Among the breeds on the decline are the Lhasa Apso down 80 percent Rottweiler (down 76 percent) Schipperke (75 percent) the Basset Hound (66 percent) and the Miniature Pinscher (75 percent).

艾莫劳峡谷梗以及英国和美国猎狐犬为最不受欢迎犬种。艾莫劳峡谷梗的登记数量只有32，英、美猎狐犬分别只有17。

Of the 5 German destroyers lost, only one was caused by a battleship - 13.5inch main battery fire from HMS Iron Duke. Five of the 12 damaged were hit by battleship or battle cruiser 6inch secondary batteries. Two others were damaged by splinters from battleship main battery near misses.

德国公海舰队5艘沈没的驱逐舰中，只有一艘是被英国铁公爵号战斗舰的13.5吋火炮击沈。12艘受创驱逐舰里，5艘是被英国战斗舰或战斗巡洋舰的6吋副炮所伤，另有两艘则是被英国战斗舰主炮的近失弹破片所伤。

I got the option to go abroad to Bayer Leverkusen.

我想到了离开英超，到国外的勒沃库森去闯一闯。

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。