But Tirana, despite the vitality of its student life, did not stop me dreaming of another city, much larger and more distant: Moscow.

而在地拉那的青春年华，并未浸淫我对一座更大、更远的城市的向往——莫斯科。

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After depositing some potassium niobium oxide onto a silicon surface, graduate student Michael Sygnatowicz used an optical microscope to take this photograph, resembling a distant galaxy.

研究生迈克尔·塞格纳托维茨先是将一些钾铌氧化物堆积到硅表面，接着用光学显微镜拍摄了这幅图片，看上去像一个遥远的星系一般。

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And he argued that the current model for monitoring the quality of teaching in universities would need to be radically overhauled, as it was "too vague, too slow and too distant from the student".

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Camus was a first-rate philosophy student, and the French meritocratic system had purchase even in the distant province.

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