For decades, Americans have taken for granted the United States' leadership position in the development of new technologies.

几十年来，美国人理所当然认为美国在新技术开发中处于领导地位。

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The central state, though often very rich and very populous, was intrinsically fragile, since the development of new international trade routes could undermine the monetary base and erode state power.

尽管中央帝国通常非常富有和人口稠密，它本质上是很脆弱的，因为新的国际贸易路线的发展可能会破坏货币基础和侵蚀国家权力。

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The parts of the enterprise which are scientifically the most exciting are unlikely to be militarily useful. I am thinking here of the development of new kinds of lasers.

这份计划中，从科学角度看最让人兴奋的部分在军事上却可能无用。我指的是新型激光开发。

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They hope studying these genes more closely could help in development of new treatments for the disease, and possibly a cure.

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Obviously with this sort of partitioning of behavior, and activities, and effort, there's not a lot of time leftover for leisure, for development of new technologies and things like this.

显然,采用这样一种,行为,活动及精力的分配方式,自然不会剩下很多时间,用来娱乐,发展技术和改革创新

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One of the big arguments that is part of this story is when did this development of new way of fighting come about; rather quickly, over a matter of a few years, or did it stretch out over quite a long time.

人们对此最大的争议就在于,这种新型战斗方式是何时为军队所用的,是在短短几年内迅速发展起来的呢,还是在很长的一段时间逐步形成的呢

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The class focus is the design and development of new web based products and services.

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Legislation in these areas would threaten drug company earnings and discourage development of new products.

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The participants also discussed the terms and modalities of development of new UCPDs for 2013-2015.

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