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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.
在选举到来的前夕，他或许没有感觉到即将到来的中期选举对他的政党而言是有些惨淡的，但是奥巴马是一个幸运的人。
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).
这一融资缺口比2000年那场破坏就业和投资的野蛮的公司紧缩战略风波前夕的缺口还要大（见图）。
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).
在全球危机前夕，尽管有高增长和低利率，印度的公共债务仍然超过GDP的80%，这比国外同等国家的情况还要糟糕（如图示）。

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.
现在他还没有定下《降临》这首诗的主题，亚当和夏娃从伊甸园这个极乐的地方降临人间。
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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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