The laser works by covering the ship in a green shroud that leaves the pirates unable to steer a direct course or aim their weapons accurately.

该武器能够制造绿色激光，将船只隐藏在激光之后，从而使海盗迷失方向，武器无法瞄准。

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Dive south early and hope to utilise the stronger winds or stay further north, keeping the more direct course to the finish line. Which will it be?

尽早一路向南，希望利用强风来速度前行，或者是尽量靠北行驶，向着重点线保持着更加直接的航线。你们会选择哪一个呢？

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The students were generally frank and direct in their comments on how course work could be better presented.

对于如何更好地提高课堂质量，学生们的评价通常是坦率、直白的。

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It led to a rapid decline in foreign direct investment in Georgia and a rapid decline in growth, reinforced,of course, by the economic crisis.

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Of course, other stocks are held by institutions on their behalf, but in terms of direct ownership, homes are the main thing that people own.

当然,他们还通过金融机构,间接持有股票,但从直接持有的角度来看,人们拥有的主要财产就是住宅

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Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

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Getting a good bearing is important because unless the insect rolls a direct course, it risks turning back towards the dung pile where another beetle will almost certainly try to steal its prized ball.

BBC: Dung beetles guided by Milky Way

If Apophis passes the earth at a distance of exactly 18, 893 miles it will open a "gravitational keyhole" causing it to enter a new orbit that would put it on a direct collision course with earth seven years later.

CNN: Space's threat to civilization

This is EDI (Ethnic Direct Investment), a variation of course on FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), but flagging the ancestral origins of the foreign investor.

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