He said that the deal should not be seen as a precursor to a merger.

他说这次交易不应该被看作是合并的前兆。

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Pearson likens the colonial medical consultation process as a precursor to email.

皮尔森认为殖民时代的医疗咨询过程，就象网络会诊的前身。

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His latest idea is that the gap was bridged by music, which may thus be seen as a precursor to language.

他最近提出，其间的沟壑由音乐填补——而音乐也可以看视为语言的先驱。

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They're derived from a precursor called triacylglyceride, which is as glycerol molecule with three fatty acid chains dangling off of it.

它们来源于一种叫三酰甘油的前体,由甘油分子上连接了,三个脂肪酸链构成

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As a precursor to privatisation, both banks felt they had to start paying dividends again.

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Wealth here has always come as a consequence of survival, never as a precursor to it.

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Perhaps Wisconsin should be seen as a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, and perhaps Occupy Wall Street is only the beginning.

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