This period might be described as the extension of the first leap and preparations for the second.

其特征，可以概括为第一次飞跃的延伸与第二次飞跃的准备。

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The first leap was from empirical management to scientific one, while the second from scientific management to humanistic one.

第一次是经验管理向科学管理的飞跃，第二次是科学管理向人文管理的飞跃。

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So ordinary and routine has watching movies become to us that it takes a determined leap of the imagination to grasp the impact of those first moving images.

看电影对于我们来说司空见惯，因此要理解这些活动的画面最初产生的影响，想象力必须进行巨大的飞跃。

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While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.

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As with all startups, what we often see is the first big leap from obscurity.

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He admitted there was still much hard pounding ahead - but seemed convinced that the recent mildly positive financial results were the first signs that the leap onto Microsoft's platform rather than Google's was working.

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