As gallery material, photographs are now essentially no different from paintings concocted entirely from an artist's imagination, except that they lack painting's manual touch and surface variation.

作为画廊的展品，摄影已经与那些完全源自艺术家想象力的绘画几乎没有分别，除了摄影比他们需要更少的技巧。

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In my opinion, the main reason for such a limited adoption is essentially the lack of proper tools.

在我看来，这种应用范围有限的主要原因基本上是缺乏合适的工具。

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The BBC Trust said it did not believe the BBC had intentionally misled its audience, but the problem was "essentially one of a lack of clarity" and the result of a "looseness of language".

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The FLY, for lack of a better description, is essentially a pen-based computer for kids that lets you write stuff down on paper and then interact with your drawings.

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Basically, what Little League means is that the bats meet standards that essentially give metal bats the same relative lack of pop as wooden bats.

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