Some of our early intuition will prove right, some will need fine tuning, and some ideas will prove off-base.

我们早期的一些直觉可能是对的，一些可能需要调整，有些方法可能被证明不靠谱。

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The army was cut off from its base.

那支部队与基地失去了联络。

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The base will serve as a jumping-off point for troops going out into the country areas.

基地将作为军队进入乡村地区的出发地。

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Nine days after take-off, Voyager landed smoothly at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

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What's hanging off of the side of this long molecule that's formed by polymerizing nucleotides are - is this base unit.

在这条由多聚核苷酸,构成的长链分子,一侧悬挂着碱基单位

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Usually, if a report is totally off-base, there are plenty of people ready to knock it down.

CNN: McIntyre: Buzz building around Gates

Despite his disdain for meat industry practices, Bourdain thinks the push for an all-vegetarian diet is off-base.

CNN: Should Americans banish the burger?

The ruse was so convincing that some forwarded the message off-base and posted it to Transformer fan sites.

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