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Last year marked the third year in a row that Indonesia’s bleak rate of deforestation has slowed in pace.

去年是印度尼西亚令人忧心的森林砍伐速度连续第三年放缓。

After Pickwick, Dickens plunged into a bleaker world. In Oliver Twist, he traces an orphan’s progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London. Nicholas Nickleby, his next novel, combines the darkness of Oliver Twist with the sunlight of Pickwick. The popularity of these novels consolidated Dickens as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters.

在《匹克威克外传》之后，狄更斯投入到一个更加阴暗的世界。在《雾都孤儿》中，他追述了一个孤儿从济贫院到伦敦犯罪贫民窟的历程。他的下一部小说《尼古拉斯·尼克尔贝》融合了《雾都孤儿》的黑暗和《匹克威克外传》的明朗。这些小说的流行巩固了狄更斯作为一位享誉国内外的文学家的地位。

David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organisations.

戴维·格拉多尔的结论是，只会说英语的毕业生面临着黯淡的经济前景，因为事实证明，来自其他国家、能力合格且会说多种语言的年轻人在跨国公司和组织中比英国同龄人更具竞争优势。