His research can serve as a valuable reference for the UN to control the spread of EBOLA, a deadly virus.

他的实验能够为联合国提供宝贵的参考，帮助控制埃博拉这一致命病毒的传播。

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My previous boss will act as a reference for me.

我的前任上司将做我的推荐人。

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It was originally planned as a reference library for the federal legislature.

最初，它计划用来作为联邦立法机构的参考图书馆。

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Fairey says he used the AP photograph as a reference, but then changed it greatly for his own idealized and colorful picture of Barack Obama.

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The problems that Frost's poetry poses for us as readers are not problems of reference. They can't be solved by footnotes.

他的诗歌给我们的困难,不是参考的问题，它们不能就用脚注解决。

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The THE list is intended less as a tool for would be undergraduates trying to decide where to go to school than as a reference for governments and university leaders.

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Typically, retail buyers take thousands of photos at industry trade shows, for example, to use as reference points for design and color trends that inform their private-label merchandise for everything from housewares to apparel.

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The bottom line is that the cylinders have now passed their useful shelf life as the ultimate reference for the kilogram and as a result, scientists around the world have been working on new ways to define the kilogram.

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