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A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said.

来自港口城市蒙巴萨一家动物园的官方报道说，这里的一只在海啸中幸免于难被冲上肯尼亚海滩的河马幼崽与一只年近百岁的雄性乌龟缔结难得的亲缘。

At 28 he was appointed chief conductor of the Royal Opera House. But it proved a false dawn and for nearly 20 years he suffered almost total neglect.

28岁时他被任命为皇家歌剧院的首席指挥，但这却是锦绣前程的幻象，近20年时间他几乎完全被忽视。

Church, who is 41 and has lived in Baton Rouge for nearly three years, has a theory.

现年41岁并曾在巴顿鲁治居住过近3年时间的徹奇有一个理论。

She turned to intimate friends, such as Walter Berry, Henry James and Bernard Berenson, and, in her late 40s, fell into an all-consuming love affair with the dodgy and bisexual Morton Fullerton.

此后，她开始于密友的友谊中寻求慰藉——像是华特·贝里，亨利·詹姆斯还有伯纳德·伯伦森，并在其近50岁时，陷入与双性恋者摩顿·富勒的爱情之中。然而富勒对感情的率性和欺骗让这段爱恋终入毁灭。

Chen Duxiu's acceptance of the Trotskyism was related to his nearing perception toward Trotsky after the failure of revolution, and at a certain level, this could be said a kind of misread of one-sided wish.

正是在这个意义上，陈独秀在经历革命失败后出于对托洛茨基心灵上的趋近感而接受托洛茨基主义，在一定程度上可以说是对这一主义的一种一厢情愿的误读，在陈晚年的岁月中，他又再次&放逐&任何主义。

Virtually unknown outside of Scandinavia until she was nearly 40 years old, Flagstad exploded upon the operatic firmament with that Metropolitan Opera debut, which just happened to be broadcast across the United States and Canada.

事实上在她家乡斯堪的纳维亚半岛以外都未曾知晓，直至她年龄近40岁时，才被对音乐无知且平庸的人们和评论家认识到，她那次仅以广播的形式对美国和加拿大两国播送的大都会歌剧院首演实况，就是她在歌剧艺术的天空下，其歌唱天才及辉煌技艺的实际爆发。

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。