My objective is to build upon the right things; things that I hope will be around for a while. I don't want to build my brilliant answer to life's problems on an outdated foundation.

我的目标要建立在正确的事情上，那些我希望会延续一段时间的事情，我不想将人生难题的辉煌答案建立在过时的基础上。

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Even the traditionalists reserved the right to entrust their wealth to the next generation, although only if the children could be relied upon to build on the fortune rather than fritter it away.

即使传统主义者也保留将财富传给下一代的权力，虽然前提条件是可以依靠他们在财富的基础上建设，而不是将财富挥霍一空。

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In order to allow the integration of business applications to facilitate the on Demand provisioning of services, you need a set of industry standards upon which to build your technology.

为了提供业务应用程序的集成以便于服务的按需提供，您需要一套行业标准来创建您的技术。

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The annual summer movie onslaught will only build upon previous releases heavy on digital enhancements, such as Lord of the Rings and Pearl Harbor, while the latest Star Wars release, which hits screens at midnight, is nudging the entire film industry toward taking traditional film out of the movie-making process entirely and replacing it with digital formats.

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McBride often wonders how he could build upon his predecessors' works on the bass.

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The boldest advance came in the 17th-century, when Henry Winstanley, an eccentric inventor and practical joker (he had chairs in his house that flew up in the air), took it upon himself to build a lighthouse on the lethal Eddystone Rock, 14 miles from the English port of Plymouth.

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