They're laying the foundation for something that, up until that point, is just an idea.

他们有目的的奠基，在最后到达那个目的前，一切都只是个想法。

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Readings for new orders and new export orders point to worse to come, with factories already laying off workers, buying fewer raw materials and cutting production.

新订单和新出口订单指数预示形势还将恶化，目前工厂已经在减员、减少购买原材料和减产。

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How should one live, in light of the facts about death? That I've been laying out in the semester up to this point?

一个人应该怎样活着，鉴于我这个学期一直讲到这刻的，关于死亡的事实？

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How should one live, in light of the facts about death ? that I've been laying out in the semester up to this point?

一个人应该怎样活着，鉴于我这个学期一直讲到这刻的,关于死亡的事实？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Is there too much risk in the President laying out a plan at this point?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Perhaps rather than taking every element of the report into account, focusing on teacher pay could be a good leaping off point for future reforms, laying the groundwork for more exclusive top-tier education programs and other stepping stones to a more professional teaching labor pool.

FORBES: NCEE Report Focuses on Teachers as Professionals, New Pay Schemes

And if his companies cannot turn a profit at some point, he is going to start laying people off at his army of enterprises.

FORBES: Oil Shares Crashing, Eike Batista Fast Becoming Brazil's Poorest Rich Man