To make the breakthrough, a team of physicists at IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom used a device called a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

为了取得突破，一组物理学家们在瑞士的苏黎世的IBM实验室和英国的利物浦大学使用了一个名为扫描隧道显微镜(STM)的装置。

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The company looks poised to make a significant breakthrough in China.

该公司看上去稳将在中国实现一次重大突破。

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It could even predict when microprocessors would make the price-performance breakthrough.

我们甚至可以预测到微处理器的性价比获得突破的时间点。

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So you've got exactly the experience you would have if you were working in your lab having the brilliant breakthrough when you finally realize what the combination is that would make the right antibody, whatever it is.

你获得一模一样的体验,仿佛在实验室里取得重大突破,终于搞清楚药物成分,生成有效的抗生素等等。

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Hyde enjoyed their fair share of possession but they seldom threatened to make the breakthrough they so desperately needed.

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Tajikistan appeared set to make the breakthrough after being awarded a penalty, only for captain Samad Shohzukhurov to waste the resulting spot kick.

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Into extra-time, it was Australia who looked the more likely to make the breakthrough with Sasa Ognenovski nearly scoring with a spectacular overhead kick.

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