The idea was that it was impossible to know whether or not the cat was alive or dead without opening the box and observing it, and that until that happened, both realities existed.

中心思想是，除非打开盒子观察，不然就不可能知道猫的死活，而在打开之前，两种状况是共存的。

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That's got to be a quicker way to check for ripeness than taking each box off the shelf and opening it.

那是一种比从架子上取下每个盒子并打开它更快的检查成熟度的方法。

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If all goes well, Frankenstein will not be the best metaphor for synthetic biologists; they may be more like Pandora opening her box - but releasing the hope without the woe.

如果一切进展顺利，科学怪人将不会成为合成生物学家的最好比喻；他们或许更像是打开宝盒的潘多拉——但释放的是希望而非灾难。

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The fewer steps a consumer must take -- from opening the box to running a PC--the better, Whalley says.

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"Opening the box is very tempting before and very disastrous afterwards, " he said.

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Opening up the box for the Nintendo Wii, you see a cute white contraption, not much bigger than an old VHS tape.

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