We happened to discover we had a friend in common.

我们碰巧发现我们有个共同的朋友。

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It's exciting to discover traces of earlier civilizations.

发现以前文明的遗迹，真令人兴奋。

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I was tickled to discover that we'd both done the same thing.

我高兴地发现我俩在做同样的事。

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Professor Taylor says his team used this method to discover that butterflies depend on information about the Earth's magnetic fields.

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Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

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Tolstoy draws a highly realistic and believable portrait of somebody who is surprised to discover that he's mortal.

托尔斯泰刻画了一个高度真实可信的,一个对自己的必死感到惊讶的人的形象。

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Critics are keen to discover if staffing changes at the California-based studio affected the product.

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If you can bear to break away, there are some delightful hillside villages to discover.

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As new models are developed they should be deployed and tested quickly to discover their failings.

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