The idea here is to plant the seed for the point you are about to make.

这时情节的设计，是要为故事真正要传达的重点埋下伏笔。

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I know I'm ovulating right now. The ground is ready. I just need someone to plant the seed.

我知道自己现在处于受孕期。大地已经成熟，只欠一个播种的人了。

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When you plant the seed, you don't argue or directly address what you want. You just give subtle Suggestions and hints. Then you wait.

当你“播种”的时候，无需争论或直接表明你的要求，你只需提供一些微妙的建议和提示，接下来就是等待。

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Farmers could not plant crops, because they had no seed and no animals to break the ground.

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And just to plant this seed with 32 bits, what's the biggest number you can represent?

而对于32比特，所能表示的最大的数是多少？

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So, we have evidence that the king doled out seed for planting, instructed people just exactly when to plant, where to plant, what to plant there, when to fertilize it if they did.

也有证据表明,国王恩赐作物种子,指导人民在何时,何地,耕种何种植物,以及如何在恰当的时间施肥

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And when you plant the seed of confidence in American businesses to invest in more American workers, then we can once again say that we will make it in America.

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Indeed, tasting one of the "mind-changing" South American wines in our story "Making a Case for South America" might even plant the seed for a visit to Argentina and Chile.

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He does not, however, own the right to the use of the patented gene, or of the seed or plant containing the patented gene or cell.

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