His speech began this way: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Four score and seven years ago, well actually a lot less than that was when an artistically inclined man in New York became dedicated to the proposition of sculpting snow.
For one thing, this is a science fiction movie which tells us an exciting story about an English gentleman, Mr. Phileas Fogg, who makes a bet with his clubmates and managers that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
In the 1980s House of Fraser was the subject of a histrionic row between a British tycoon, Tiny Rowland, who coveted the company, and an Egyptian investor, Mohamed Al Fayed, who bought it.
在上世纪八十年代,弗雷泽百货 (House of Fraser) 曾是两大商业巨亨的争夺对象,英国巨头蒂尼·罗兰德已对这家公司垂涎已久,最终埃及投资商默罕默德·法耶德成功收购。
Most researchers estimate that 70 to 80 percent of their time is spent not on the collecting of data but on its analysis--looking at photos, listening to recordings and transcribing them and so on.
Then, in the 1970s and 80s, social and economic reforms triggered the start of a major transition to urban living and many of the country's small villages transformed into enormous metropolises.