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HE MAY not feel it on the eve of what is likely to be a wretched mid-term election for his party, but Barack Obama is a lucky man.
在選舉到來的前夕，他或許沒有感覺到即將到來的中期選舉對他的政黨而言是有些慘淡的，但是奧巴馬是一個幸運的人。
That is a bigger funding shortfall than in 2000, on the eve of a savage retrenchment by firms that hurt jobs as well as investment (see chart).
這一融資缺口比2000年那場破壞就業(yè)和投資的野蠻的公司緊縮戰(zhàn)略風波前夕的缺口還要大（見圖）。
Despite strong growth and low interest rates, its public debt was still over 80% of GDP on the eve of the global crisis, worse than India’s peers (see chart).
在全球危機前夕，盡管有高增長和低利率，印度的公共債務(wù)仍然超過GDP的80%，這比國外同等國家的情況還要糟糕（如圖示）。

These intensified after a terrorist attack in January killed three people on the eve of the Africa championship in Angola.
Now, he hasn't yet settled on the topic of the Fall, the fall of Adam and Eve from their place of bliss in the Garden of Eden.
現(xiàn)在他還沒有定下《降臨》這首詩的主題，亞當和夏娃從伊甸園這個極樂的地方降臨人間。
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Secretary Clinton says Afghanistan is at a critical moment in its history on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai's second term.

On the eve of Christmas 2007, quite a few obituaries for incandescent light bulbs were penned.
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