They went so far as to break off a fruitful discussion on this crucial question.

他们竟然中断了对这个重要问题进行的富有成效的讨论。

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Then Columbus took the egg and struck its small end gently upon the table so AS to break the shell a little.

于是哥伦布拿起那只蛋，把尖的一头轻轻往桌上一磕，敲碎一点蛋壳。

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Then Columbus took the egg and struck its small end gently upon the table so as to break the shell a little.

于是，哥伦布拿起鸡蛋，将相对较小的那一端在桌子上轻轻一磕。

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They were suspended from ropes as they used heavy air-powered hammers to break any loose rock away from the face of the canyon walls.

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So these devices, when I was a youngster, were colloquially known as "atom smashers", because they have the capacity to actually break these and have them reform.

这些设备，当我还年轻的时候，它们在口语中被叫做核粒子加速器，因为它们有能力,将这些破碎并重新形成。

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As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

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Lastly, cross-border financial integration has spread far enough to channel contagion from one country to another, but not so far as to break the cycle of weak banks and weak sovereigns bringing each other down.

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"It's not so much about disappearing on the battlefield as helping to break up the expected, actual profile, " he says.

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It gave the Scarlets a man advantage but they failed to capitalise as they continued to break down a resilient Bristol defence.

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