As a backbone system that interconnects networks, internet was a name that fit.

作为连接网络的主干系统，互联网这一名称很合适。

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As a backbone of the Northwest power Network, Liujiaxia Hydropower Plant plays the roles of generate electricity, peak modulation, frequency modulation and voltage modulation.

刘家峡水电厂在西北电网中主要承担发电、调峰、调频和调压任务，是西北电网的骨干电站，在西北电力系统中处于十分重要的地位。

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Prime Minister Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis told the council that her government is committed to fixing Haiti's problems and creating a strong economy as its backbone.

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He is independent in a way that nobody who was not a king or an aristocrat in the past has ever been -- a new kind of man, the backbone of the polis as it emerges.

他是如此的独立以至于,前无古人后无来者,一个全新的人,它不断地发展并成为城邦制的脊梁

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At OCE Interactive, we have constructed a database (we refer to it as a backbone) that maps out the relationship between historical and expected EPS growth versus dividend payout for all companies market wide over the past 20 years.

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The singer uses this as a musical backbone to render the original composition into a qawwali, khayal or thumri (styles of singing).

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Dr. Urbina describes them to patients as having a backbone of fat with three (tri) sugars (glycerides) attached.

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