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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 truth will not be known for years.

真相要过数年才能揭晓。

It is the first worldwide epidemic 1 by the World Health Organization in 41 years.

这是世界卫生组织 41年来首次宣布的全球性疫情 1 。

At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm – double the figure five years earlier.

据研究公司Arts Economics的创始人克莱尔·麦克安德鲁估算，2007年该市场达到顶峰时价值约为650亿美元，是五年前数字的两倍。

I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

我发现，正如Hacker多年前观察到的那样，大多数妻子首先希望丈夫成为交谈伙伴，但很少有丈夫对妻子抱有同样的期望。