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Nowadays the light collected by the lens or mirror of a telescope is directed to a photographic plate rather than to the astronomer's eye.

被望远镜的透镜或反射镜所收集的光线，如今直接射到照相底板上，而不是天文学家的眼睛里。

If your parents were worried about a serious problem that had nothing to do with you directly, would you want them to tell you about it or would you rather not know?

如果你父母正为一件事发愁但这事跟你却没有直接关系，你希望他们告诉你还是情愿不知道呢？

Rather, the base concept is used to access or derive an abstract metaphoric category of which it represents a prototypical member, and the target concept is then assigned to that category.

结构映射理论认为，目标概念与基础概念之间的跨范围映射是由抽象的比喻类概念作为中介的，因此比喻就是一种类比或者比较。

Finally I realized that I had to belong to myself rather than some sort of vague, abstract form of race or class ...

最后，我意识到我只有属于我自己，而不是某种模糊的，抽象形式的种族或阶层。。。

Rather than being formal or lingual, modern abstractionism has been conceptual since its beginning.

当代抽象主义与其说是形式的，或语言的，不如说从一开始就是观念的。

People do want to know that there is somebody on the system that can react to an emergency, but if driverless operation means that there are more staff at stations, or in the passenger accommodation of a train, rather than locked away in the cab, this seems to be where passengers want to see staff.

相反，如果无人驾驶可以让车站有更多人手，或者让更多的服务人员值守在乘客车厢内，而不是远远地锁在驾驶室，这反而符合了乘客的意愿。他们希望看到有穿制服且有职权的人在近旁，不是司机也行。"引语"'移动闭塞'，当然还有ERTMS，都要求配备具有足够宽带的可靠通信干线。——奥雅纳环球路桥技总监

That the capital A might have been thought to mean admirable , or anything rather than adulteress

从比喻来讲，它含有一种令人赞许的能量的意思。

32P isotope tracing technique was used in this study,and the results indicated that phosphorus stored or pre-existed in roots would be remobilized in maize under phosphorus deficiency from root cortical cells with lysis to shoot mostly rather than root apex during aerenchyma formation.

Kraus等的试验表明玉米根系从土壤中吸收的32P可在根皮层内保留15 d，之后逐渐减少[2]。这意味着与叶片的情形相似，根内也进行着磷的活化和再运转。当植物处于磷胁迫下时，根系吸收的磷素远不能满足植物各器官生长发

Or will it have the impact of an air rifle pellet, rather than the artillery barrage we now need?

或者只有气枪子弹的效果，而不是目前我们需要的炮火？

It may be admitted that in many cases the difference is rather in the terminology, or that a reconciliation is possible, if one emphasize certain parts of Scotus or St.

可以承认，在许多情况下，差别是在相当的术语，或者说，和解是可能的，如果之一强调某些部分司各脱或圣托马斯，并越过或淡化等。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。