The British discovery also came at just the right time - the us had threatened to sever intelligence links over the release of Lockerbie bomber al Megrahi.

英国的发现来的正是时候——美国曾经威胁因为释放洛克比空难投弹手阿尔·麦格里希，要断绝情报部门的联系。

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The right to discovery has been used by aggressive lawyers not just to find pieces of information, but to exhaust and impoverish adversaries through endless motions for more.

然而事实上这一权力往往会被咄咄逼人的律师滥用：并非为了获取信息，而是通过无穷无尽地索取信息来拖垮对手。

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And second, of course, is the notion of a worldwide web of information, a system that brings every bit of news and data and discovery right to your door.

第二点当然就是全球范围的信息网络，正是这一体系将所有新闻、数据、新发现直接呈现给你。

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Gupta sued the SEC in federal court, saying that the administrative proceeding deprived him of his constitutional right to a jury and also deprived him of the pre-trial discovery available in federal court but not in administrative proceedings.

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The bonanza was spurred by the Obama administration's apparent discovery of a constitutional right for every citizen to squander tax dollars while farming.

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That use survives today in phrases like Columbus's (all right, Leif Ericsson's, if you must) discovery of America.

ECONOMIST: Johnson