早期的抗议仅仅是大革命开始前的预演。

The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.

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但幸运的是，早期的工艺在19世纪中期得以复兴；艺术家们重新开始在设计中使用有色玻璃和铅条。

But luckily there was a revival of the early techniques in the mid-1800s and artists went back to creating colored glass and using the lead strips in their designs.

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早期的农民开始砍伐森林，牲畜产生了大量额外的甲烷。

Early farmers started clearing forests and livestock produced a lot of extra methane.

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And why I'm hesitating is, in the early days of the 20th century, the Nobels were first given in 1901.

让我犹豫的是，在20世纪的早期，诺贝尔奖在1901年才开始颁发。

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By the time we get to Woolf in the early part of the twentieth century, Milton has come to be associated with essentially all of these ways of thinking about power, however contradictory they are.

到了20世纪早期伍尔夫的那个时代，人们开始将弥尔顿与所有思考力量,的方式相联系，不管这些方式是多么互相矛盾。

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This surface layer thickens at an early stage in a mouse after 8 days of development.

发育8天后，老鼠早期胚胎的,外胚层开始增厚。

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