This is a first step towards political union.

这是走向政治上联合的第一步。

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This was a first step towards a united Europe.

这是向建立统一欧洲的目标迈出的第一步。

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Seven months and one election day later, a new conservative city council suspended enforcement of the clean air zone, a first step toward its possible demise.

七个月后大选日结束的第一天，由保守派掌控的新一届市议会中止了“清洁空气区”的执行，迈出了废除该项措施的第一步。

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He tells VOA tougher action must follow. "This is am important first step, but it is only a first step,"

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And in terms of thinking about it for organic chemistry or if you're interested in thinking about the mechanism maybe by which it is toxic, a first step would be to draw its Lewis structure.

而为了在有机化学中思考它,或者如果你对它,有毒的机理感兴趣的话，第一步要做的应该就是画出它的路易斯结构。

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So the first step to doing that is I want to just generalize our results so far for a Carnot cycle.

第一步,首先来推广一下,卡诺循环的结果。

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Insurers increasingly are requiring home tests as a first step before paying for an in-lab test.

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"This is a first step, and I'm sure there will be other steps, " says Schulte-Noelle.

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As a first step, I hereby heartily endorse the framework laid out by the Bowles-Simpson Commission.

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