As I've found in previous research, when trains were a new technology 150 years ago, some journalists and intellectuals worried about the destruction that the railroads would bring to society.

我发现了一个以前完成的调查，上面说当150年前火车作为一种先进科技刚出来的时候，一些记者和知识分子担心铁轨的破坏性会让社会贻害无穷。

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And now a new proposal, from a broad group of Palestinian intellectuals, politicians and business people, could drive a wedge between the two.

现在，由一个包括了巴勒斯坦知识分子界、政界、商界人物的广泛团体提出的新建议可能在双方之间打开僵局。

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Mr Kapetanovic has now begun a drive to organise a new cadre of "partisans" : key civil servants, businessmen, intellectuals, journalists and activists keen to get into the EU.

卡帕·坦诺·维奇现在正推动组建一个新的“党派”：热衷加入欧盟的主要行政人员、商人、知识分子、记者以及活动家。

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Formed by disillusioned younger members of the Muslim Brotherhood, trade-union activists and intellectuals, the New Wasat would have been likely to attract a broad-based following.

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