The party must hold an internal election to decide on its new chief, a process that can take weeks.

自民党必须举行一次内部选举来确定其新领导人，这一过程可能需要数周。

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And the extremophiles tell us that life could potentially take hold even on planets not much like our own.

而且极端微生物也告诉我们生命是有在那些和地球不太一样的行星里生存的潜力的。

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I watched Palin take a club to a huge halibut that was flopping around on the deck of a boat, knocking it out cold so it could be thrown into the hold of a professional fishing vessel.

我看到佩林手拿一根棒子，朝还在甲板上乱蹦的巨大的比目鱼打去，这只鱼随即安静，人们把它扔到了专用的鱼桶里。

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Several players, including Yankee Nick Swisher, said that superstitions mostly take hold among younger players, who latch on to anything that they think will keep them in the majors.

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Farina points out that since many movie-making trends first take hold in the trailer industry, the fact that Final Cut is catching on there augurs well for its ultimate position in feature films.

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In 2006, a firm called Tidal Electric Ltd put forward proposals to take the project on, but that has since been put on hold.

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