Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye.

尽管最成功的创业者通常都是好人，但他们眼睛里似乎都闪烁着海盗般的光芒。

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Turning sadly away, the sweeper's eye was caught by a gleam in the bushes near the rock where he had placed the treasure chest the night before.

他伤心极了，转过身准备要回去，这时眼睛被树丛里的一道光线闪了一下，位置就在他昨晚放下宝箱的那块石头旁边。

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Livia and I experienced one of those traditions on a high ridge at the edge of a cliff, in a truck driven by a man with a gleam in his eye.

Livia和我坐在卡车里，在悬崖边的高高山脊上感受了这些传统，一旁开车的Jarrett眼睛里闪烁着光芒。

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Today, the Cape York project is a gleam in the eye of a private Australian developer.

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Physicians have faced a 21% cut in payment from Medicare long before Obama became president and, thus, long before health care reform was more than a gleam in the eye of its proponents.

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He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a search engine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.

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