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这家公司的股票价格在收盘前略有回升。
Consider that in 1990, roughly half the global population lived on less than 1 a day; by 2007, the proportion had shrunk to 28 percent -- and it will be lower still by the close of 2010.看看1990年的时候,大约一半全球人口的日均生活费用少于1美元;而到2007年,该项比率已经缩减到28%——到2010年末它还会更低。
At the time of this writing (November 2007) Apple had sold a whopping 100 million iPods, and is on track to ship more than 200 million iPods by the end of 2008 and 300 million by the close of 2009.在写这本书时(2007年11月)苹果已经售出了超过1亿台iPod,这个数字在2008年末有望超过2亿,并在2009年结束时超过三亿。
Prices had risen by 50 % by the close of business.停业之前,价格上涨了50%.
All this had passed into history by the close of the 19 th Century.所有这些都随着19世纪的完结,成为了历史.