Helping breeders quickly develop better varieties of all these crops will be crucial as the world population tops 9 billion by 2050 in the face of a changing climate.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

For our purposes, I think that won't be crucial, and so I'll sometimes talk about this set of abilities without actually having a canonical list.

但鉴于课程的目的,这点并不在我们的讨论重点之内,所以我也许偶尔会提及人的这些能力,但并不会把它们详尽地列举出来

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We don't even know where it is we're supposed to be looking from, and the choice between Fesole and Valdarno that Milton gives the reader is crucial here.

我们甚至不知道是否应该从此处着眼，而弥尔顿向读者提出的，菲索尔和瓦达诺之间的抉择,在这儿是至关重要的。

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Iqbal Khattak, a Peshawar-based journalist for the Daily Times newspaper, says for the army to be successful in South Waziristan, it will also be crucial for it to exploit tribal tensions that exist between the Mehsuds and Wazirs, the two major clans in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

But, and this will be the crucial point, notice Socrates should have continued the soul is invisible in that sense.

但是，这一点很重要，注意苏格拉底应该在这个意思上,继续阐述灵魂是无形的。

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He says finding that out will be crucial. "Whether this was an act of terrorism conducted by al-Qaida central or that of a lone wolf acting independently, we will have to wait and see for the investigation and what comes out of that, but we do know that al-Qaida and their affiliates have a crazed obsession in targeting the aviation industry,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

It's crucial, as I say, and I'm going to be coming back to it, but it's just a point I want to make in passing about the nature of theory now.

这一点至关重要，而且我以后还会再次提到，但现在关于理论的本质我就谈到这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Dopamine is considered a neurotransmitter that is crucial for our ability to perceive rewards and to be motivated in our behavior."

VOA: special.2009.09.16

These are going to be fairly common-sense definitions, but they're important, and when you get to a problem set, really nailing down what the system is, not more, nor less, in terms of the amount of stuff, that's part of the system, it's going to be often very crucial.

这些是,很常识性的定义，但是很重要，当你要解决问题时，务必要搞清楚系统是什么，它包含多少物质，不能多也不能少，这往往,是非常重要的。

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"In areas where the sleeping sickness is still very prevalent, such as remote areas of some central African countries -- which are by the way very unstable areas -- it will be also crucial to have simpler treatment and obviously oral treatment would be the best."

VOA: special.2010.04.07

And here's the crucial point for that person lecturing to you on Tuesday to be the very same person as the person lecturing to you today on Thursday.

这里有个重要问题,那个下星期二给你们上课的人,一定要是这个星期四,给你们上课的人。

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"In areas where the sleeping sickness is still very prevalent such as remote areas of some central African countries, which are by the way very unstable areas, it will be also crucial to have simpler treatment and obviously oral treatment would be the best."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

For our purposes,the crucial point is to see that what seems to be going on there is our hero is taking the place of somebody else who's about to die.

我们的目的是搞清楚这里的情况,我们的主人公代替别人死亡了。

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