It is not an idea around which the community can unite. On the contrary, I see it as one that will divide us.

这不是一个可以让我们的组织团结起来的主意。恰恰相反，我看它会分裂我们。

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This is wholly unexpected. I had not an idea of it.

这真是完全出人意料；我想也不曾想到。

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In a time of rationing, this is not an idea that can be realized on every day of the week, but I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than twenty weak ones.

在配给制下，一周中每天都能做到这一点不现实，但我仍然认为一杯浓茶胜过二十杯淡茶。

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But some historians suggest that the inclusion of opponents may not have been as smart an idea as Lincoln had hoped.

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So, what he did was kind of impose a quantum mechanical model, not a full one, just the idea that those energy levels were quantized on to the classical picture of an atom that has a discreet orbit.

还不是完整的,只是这些能级，是量子化的概念，作用到原子有分立轨道的经典原子模型上,当他做了一些计算后,他得到有个半径,他算出来。

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And so it really, not the course but the idea for the course, was an evolution three years four years ago, really, when I was involved in something called the Civic Values Task Force, which was started by Princeton Project 55.

所以说，不是这个课程,而是这个课程的设想，是在三四年前形成的，当时我参加了,公民价值专责小组，由普林斯顿大学55工程发起。

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Not an idea which really stands up to all that much scrutiny.

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That is not an idea, it is a simple fact.

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Mr Tung now proposes to reduce those able to vote for those seats from 2.7m in the 1995 election to 180, 000 next year: not an idea likely to keep people civil for ever.

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