Britain's new cabinet agreed to cut the pay of all ministers by five percent, the first step in what is to be a major effort to cut Britain's national deficit.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

Because if b was odd, then b minus one is even which means on the next step, I can cut the problem in half again.

这意味着我在下一步里解决的问题,规模要小了一半，好，课堂材料的第三题。

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The first step is we had to be able to take this circular DNA and cut it to create a site for our new gene to be added.

第一步是切割环形DNA,以创造出一个整合新基因的位点

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Well the first step would be to cut open the plasmid with a particular restriction enzyme, and then what if I take that same restriction enzyme and I cut up the DNA that I'm interested in.

第一步是用某种限制性内切酶把质粒切开,然后用同一种限制性内切酶,切出我想要的DNA

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