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That original Kindle, code-named "Fiona" after a character in Neal Stephenson's futuristic novel The Diamond Age, was finally ready to go in the fall of 2007.

最初的 Kindle 以尼尔·斯蒂芬森的科幻小说《钻石时代》中的一个人物命名，代号为“菲奥娜”，终于准备在2007年秋季上市。

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The main character is often unknowingly lured into this potentially lethal predicament by a seductive femme fatale, as in Original Sin.

就像在《原罪》中一样，主角经常会在不知不觉中被一位性感的蛇蝎美人引诱到这个可能致命的困境中。

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Stewart returns as Bella and says the year since the original Twilight film has turned her character's life upside-down.

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It never lost entirely its original character as an insurgent movement, independent of the state and hostile to it, making claims that challenge the secular authority.

它从来没有失去充满,反抗精神的本原色,它独立于国家并与之格格不入,公然向世俗权威发起挑战

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But to some degree Times Square has lost its original character

但从某种程度上讲，时代广场已经失去了它的本来面貌。

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While everyone wants a pristinely restored stone house, full of character and original features, if you are prepared to do some work, you could find a house you really love at a reasonable price.

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Our apartment struggled to resume its original character.

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Or even of usefulness, which might have recommended it to an orangutan as a way of helping it to keep its balance, but not as a way of stripping someone else's text of all its original character.

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