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Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

现在，这个国家最高级别的专利法院似乎已完全准备削减商业方法专利，这类专利自十年前首次被授权以来就一直存在争议。

The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

纽约爱乐乐团决定聘请艾伦·吉尔伯特担任下一任音乐总监，自从2009年突然宣布这一任命以来，这一决定一直是古典音乐界议论的焦点。

Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.

戴维森的文章是最近几篇论述的一个例子，这些文章指出，我们如今之所以面临顽固的高失业率和中产阶级收入下降，主要原因是由于大萧条导致的需求大幅下降，但同时也是由于全球化和信息技术革命的进展，这两者正以前所未有的速度用机器或外国工人取代劳动力。

The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools.

最优秀的律师赚取了足以填满摩天大楼的钱，这诱惑着越来越多的学生涌向法学院。

In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination “to respond to unexpected events”.

在我们快速变化的经济中，我们比以往任何时候都更需要那些能够在工作中主动行动并发挥想象力以应对意外事件的人。