An important archaeological discovery on the island of Efate in the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu has revealed traces of an ancient seafaring people, the distant ancestors of todays Polynesians.

瓦努阿图太平洋群岛埃法特岛上的一项重要考古发现揭示了古代航海民族的踪迹，即今天的波利尼西亚人的远祖。

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Up to the year 1846, when Leverrier made his great discovery, it was believed that Uranus was the most distant planet revolving around the sun.

到了1846年，当勒维烈通过测算成功发现新的行星——海王星的时候，他也推算出天王星是太阳系里最遥远的行星。

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Astronomers Tuesday announced the discovery of another planet orbiting a distant star, making it the most crowded planetary system outside our own.

周二，宇航员们宣布发现了遥远太空中围绕一颗恒星运行的另一颗行星，说它是我们(太阳系)外拥有行星最多的恒星。

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Consider William Faulkner's tale "A Rose for Emily, " which hinges on the absurd, macabre discovery that an elderly woman, who in the distant past murdered her lover, has continued to sleep beside his decomposed corpse.

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But although such claims are frightening, and the more so the more distant the memory of the disease, they should be subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny as any other apparent scientific discovery especially by the reviewers and editors of influential journals.

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