In himself, too, he knew that it was vibrating at last, that chord hitherto dormant and unsuspected.

在他自己心里，他也知道那根弦终于在颤动了，那根弦一直蛰伏着，不曾被察觉。

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These tests have found that it increases the expression of dormant HIV genes fivefold.

研究人员通过这些测试发现SAHA将休眠艾滋病毒细胞的基因表达提高了五倍。

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Finally, it goes dormant.

最后，它进入休眠。

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They noted that the African Union has in the past approved an important convention, only to see it lie dormant for lack of ratification.

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it'd become kind of dormant.

它已经有一些萎靡不振。

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"Because there are only a couple of previous records of eruption at this particular volcano, it is difficult to judge either how long the activity will go on there, or how long the volcano might then be dormant before it goes active again."

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It went dormant when I realized I was putting less time into its slightly longer and more demanding posts than I was into my 140-character tweets.

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CommWarrior has been seen in the wild sporadically since the beginning of the year, but contains a sleep function that allows it to lie dormant for an undetermined period of time, which explains why it hasn't yet hit peak distribution.

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"We have the largest latent social network in the world, but it's dormant now, " she said.

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