从法律上讲，财产法仅是其前身的翻版。

Yet property law is a mere shadow of its former self, legal speaking.

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Furnivall继续担任了《牛津英语词典》前身的第二任编辑。

Furnivall went on to be the second editor of what became the Oxford English Dictionary.

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对XML文件格式前身的讨论通常会包括用逗号分隔的文件格式，这些格式极频繁地用于电子表格和数据库的导入和导出。

Discussion of precursors to XML file formats usually include comma-delimited file formats, which are very often used for import and export of spreadsheets and databases.

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It's subsequently seen as one of the precursors of the First Amendment to the American Constitution.

后来它被看作是美国宪法,第一修正案的前身。

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He spent his entire career at Yale and he wrote-- He was Head of our social sciences department, before we had separate departments of economics and psychology, etc.

他将毕生奉献给了耶鲁,而且他写了...,他是社会科学系的主任,社会科学系是,经济学系与心理学系等系的前身

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