As they began to settle, grow plants and herd animals, the need for a sophisticated number system became paramount.

当他们开始定居、种植作物和饲养动物时，他们对复杂数字系统的需求变大。

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It's extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components.

有一点非常重要，即我们要把它视为一个完整的系统，而不只是一堆独立组件的总和。

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The system of patent-granting, which confers temporary monopolies for the exploitation of new technologies, was originally established as an incentive to the pursuit of risky new ideas.

专利授予制度为开发新技术提供了暂时的垄断地位，它最初的建立是为了激励人们追求有风险的新想法。

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The system is known as NASDAQ, short for The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation.

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So perhaps as it stands, the system of dietary laws does in fact emphasize reverence for life.

也许照此来说，饮食教规的确强调了对生命的崇敬。

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If I wanted to use print as a variable name, how do I get the system to decide gee, do I want print as a value for something, or do I want print as a command?

如果我把print当做一个变量名，我如何让系统来决定，我是要把print当做一个命令来用呢，还是要把它当做一个变量名来用呢？

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French operator Systel has been appointed as the supplier for the system, which will be in place in 2014.

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Some of the suggestions include using molten lead as the coolant for the system, but the reactor would run at a temperature above 700 degrees C. when the material becomes corrosive.

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As for the banking system itself, far from wrecked or collapsed by the failure of one or many, the sector will be strengthened assuming Stockman is correct about a lack of bailouts.

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