The fear is that science could become the handmaiden of industry.

人们担心的是科学可能会成为工业的仆人。

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The model projects that currently blue areas with little phytoplankton could become even bluer.

该模型预测，目前只有少量浮游植物的蓝色区域可能会变得更蓝。

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Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.

私有化可能会成为执政党的政治包袱。

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The other bill changed the list of officials who could become president, if the president and vice president died or were removed from office.

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Boards always want to keep their price of a share up because if it starts to decline, the company could become a takeover target; it's viewed as a failure etc., etc.

董事们想将股价维持在高水准上,因为股价一旦下滑,公司很可能会成为收购目标,被人看做是决策失误等等

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That makes sense if you think about this process of cell multiplication, that I have one cell it becomes 2 cells in a minute, it could become 4 cells in another minute, it could become 8 cells in another minute and that's all that this set of equations is representing.

如果你和细胞增殖的过程联系起来的话,这个是说的通的,我有一个细胞在一分钟里变成了两个细胞,那就可以再花一分钟变成四个细胞,再花一分钟就变成八个细胞,这就是这个方程所代表的意义

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And provision of this service could become a stable revenue generator in the years to come.

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The scientists wrote that if the virus evolves further, it could become more dangerous.

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Nor is there a chance that the U.S. could become energy independent by 2025.

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