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Exxon paid 2.4 times as much cash through dividends and buy-backs as it spent on capital investment over the past three years, a ratio four times as high as Conoco.

过去3年，埃克森美孚用于分红和回购的资金，是其资本投资额的2.4倍，更是康菲同一比率的4倍。

And this condition fairly clearly rules out as cases of indirect perception seeing photographs (which statically record scenes from the past) and seeing films (which, though not static, are not seen contemporaneously with the events thus recorded).

这个条件相当明确地排除了把看照片（静态地记录了过去的场景）和看电影（虽不是静态的，但看电影与所记录的事件并不是同时间的）算作间接感知的事例。

Lakers-Spurs, for now, is about basketballThe contentiousness of the past -- Shaq vs. Duncan and Robinson, Shaq vs. Kobe -- is gone, replaced by two teams battling for a spot in the Finals.

鲨鱼大战邓肯、罗宾逊，鲨鱼和科比之争等等这些无休止的话题已经成为过去时，现在，仅仅是现在，是湖人和马刺为了总决赛的名额大战的时候。

Our research indicates that, in the past, some of the ice was formed locally, but some of it also drifted in from the central Arctic and as far away as the continental shelf waters of northern Alaska and north-eastern Russia.

我们的研究表明，在过去有一些浮冰是本地形成的，但是还有一些是从北极中部甚至更远的北阿拉斯加以及俄罗斯东北部漂流过来的。

The management system in military farms used to be mainly administrative,but now the contractive system has been involved.

军队农场管理体制过去主要是行政管理体制，但是现在是军事生产管理与承包管理并行的管理体制。

The tragedy at the heart of things, which the thoughtful Aryan is not disposed to quibble away, the contrariety at the center of the universe, is seen by him as an interpenetration of several worlds, as for instance a divine and a human, each individually in the right but each, as it encroaches upon the other, having to suffer for its individuality.

万物根源所蕴含的灾难，——这点，深思的亚利安人并不想以巧辩蒙混过去，——宇宙心灵所怀蓄的矛盾，在他看来显然是由于种种不同世界的交错混乱，譬如说，神界与人界，这两者分别来说都是合理的，但是，正因为它们分庭抗礼，所以势必各因其个性而经受痛苦。

But until this Apostle also had come to conviction of the Resurrection in the only real sense, of the identical though glorified Corporeity of the Lord, and hence of the continuity of the past with the present and future, it was impossible to re-form the Apostolic Circle, or to renew the Apostolic commission, since its primal message was testimony concerning the Risen One.

但在此之前，这使徒也已经到了被定罪的复活，在唯一的真正意义，相同的体质，虽然赞美的上帝，因此对连续性的过去与现在和未来，这是不可能的重新形成使徒圆圈，或延长使徒委员会，因为它的原始的信息是证词，有关上升1。

They are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid, and about them there is a beautiful love story passed down from generation to generation.

七夕节是我国传统节日中最具浪漫色彩的一个节日，也是过去姑娘们最为重视的日子。

Perhaps he was thinking of that far-away time--little better than five years ago, in fact; but such an age gone by to him--when he first met the woman for whom he had worn crape round his hat three days before.

也许他正在想到遥远的过去——事实上，也不过是五年多以前；但对他说来，如此年华是悄悄逝去了——当时他第一次遇到了他三天前还为她在帽子上戴一圈黑经纱的女人。

This paper analyzed the carbon isotopic ratios of tw o cryptoMeria, collecting froM West TianMu Mountain, Zhejiang, and studied th e t ree-ring carbon isotopic ratios evidence, for the atMospheric CO2 concentrati on change after Industrial Revolution.

植物在同化大气CO2过程中产生碳同位素分馏，因此，树轮中稳定碳同位素比值（1 3C/12C）不仅是重建古气候的工具，也是过去大气CO2浓度变化的敏感指示器。

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。