So, not at a horribly advanced age, I would like to think, he went to Lyon, which was a capital of the Resistance because they have all these things called traboules in Lyon, was one reason--they're passageways where you'd keep the silk, raw silk dry.

他当时还没到混吃等死的地步,我个人觉得,于是他去了里昂,当时是抵抗组织的一个首都,因为里昂那有那种过道,这是一个原因--就是小胡同,能让丝绸,生丝保持干燥

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But record-setting Toledo turned out to be a costly dry hole, illustrating the fact that even in these days of space-age 3-D seismic studies, wildcatting is still a risky business.

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So if you take a chance on GeoEye, you'd better have confidence that federal funding for private-sector satellite imagery won't dry up.

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But now, NeuroSky (a fab(u)less startup of US chip designers and Russian neuroscientists chillin' in NorCal) claims a "breakthrough" in non-invasive neural sensors allowing low-cost, dry (no contact gels) neural mapping solutions to be applied to those things you'd most like to mind control (spouse, voters, TV, game console, cellphone).

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