The plan proposes the establishment of a regional bank, and a development of plans to build a bridge over the Strait of Messina, between Sicily and mainland Italy.

计划提议建立一所地区性的银行，及筹备建造一座横跨西西里岛和意大利本土的墨西拿海峡大桥。

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A lack of oxygen may inhibit brain development in the unborn child.

缺氧可能阻碍胎儿的大脑发育。

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The Saudi authorities have made agricultural development a central plank of policy to make the country less dependent on imports.

沙特阿拉伯当局已经将农业发展作为其政策的核心纲领，以减少该国对进口的依赖。

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Most experts agree that the traditional music and dance of American slaves played a big part in the development of ragtime.

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These conditions permitted a development of institutions and habits needed for freedom, even as they also made Europe vulnerable to conquests and to extinction, and Europe was almost extinguished practically before there was a Europe; very early in its history.

这些恰恰是自由的形成和发展,需要的的制度和特征,尽管这也使欧洲,在外敌入侵时变的不堪一击,实际上,在它早期的历史中,欧洲在尚未形成前就差点消失

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What we think of as a career isn't simply the benign product of the gradual development of a certain potential.

我们认为的事业不是简简单单的,某种可能性逐渐发展的良性产物。

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The coming of the Iron Age, a development of immense political importance around 1000 B.

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"A development of this nature, for single homeless people, is very much wanted, " she said.

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The game seems to have started in northern France, as a development of knightly tournaments and sieges.

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