But only with the advent of smaller lasers has the idea of laser-based combustion become a practical one.

但是只有随着更小激光器的问世，基于激光引燃的想法才能变成现实。

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He has sent his proposals in the hope of stoking up interest for the idea.

他已上呈自己的建议，希望能激起人们对这种想法的兴趣。

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He is also an exile, a native of Palestine who has long given up the idea of going home.

他也是个流亡者，一个早已放弃回家念头的巴勒斯坦人。

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Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer and a writer in Maine who has helped popularize the idea of four-season farming.

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The idea of risk, that economic risks can be pooled, is an intuitive one that has occurred to people throughout history.

风险理论，即认为经济风险可以分摊，是历史过程中,人们逐渐发现的理论。

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It's a critique of the idea of anything that has a center, one which is at the same time an enabling causal principle.

它是在评论任何事物都有一个中心的想法，与此同时存在一个任意的原理。

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While the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has started a committee to look at the idea of offering an amnesty deal to extremist fighters, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed the idea out of hand in messages.

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Administrative devolution continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s to the extent that Martin Johnes of Swansea University has ventured the idea of "the emergence of a Welsh state".

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The industry has opposed the idea of defining serving size by fluid ounces of pure alcohol or as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor on the grounds that you may get more than 1.5 ounces of liquor in a cocktail depending on what else is in the drink and the accuracy of the bartender.

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