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A newspaper says that a picture that had cost 34 million dollars to make has bombed at the box office.
一份报纸说，一部花了叁千四百万美元拍摄的影片卖座率很低。
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This young producer made money on his first three films,
这位年轻的电影制片人，开始拍摄的叁部影片卖座率很高，赚了不少钱，...
so the studio invested forty million in his fourth film.
所以电影公司就投资四千万美元，让他拍第四部电影，...
But it turned out to be a real bomb -- it didn't make enough to get back the investment.
可是，这一部电影的卖座率实在很低，因此，连本钱都没有赚回来。
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Grandfather dropped a bombshell last night when he told the family...
祖父昨天晚上对家裡的人说了个叫大家大吃一惊的事...
he is marrying a woman 40 years younger than he is.
他要和一个比他年轻四十岁的女子结婚。
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In March 1968 President Lyndon Johnson dropped one of the biggest bombshells ever dropped in American politics
1968 年 3 月，美国总统约翰逊做了一件可能是美国政治史上最令人震惊的消息之一...
when he announced that he would not run for re-election because of the Vietnam War.
他宣佈，因為越南战争的原因他决定不竞选连任．
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