Sales of vegetable seeds such as green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and lettuce climbed 30 percent as of March at W. Atlee Burpee, a large seed company in Warminster, Pa.

宾夕法尼亚州沃明斯特的一家大种子公司，W. Atlee Burpee 3 月份的菜籽销量，比如绿豆、土豆、黄瓜、南瓜、莴苣等等，上涨了 30%。

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But many of them, including Mahyco, a leading seed company in India, also are looking for genes to splice into crops.

许多其它科学科研公司(如印度的顶尖种子公司MAHYCO)也正致力于寻找能够用来拼接到作物内的有用基因。

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Apple's purchase of Next not only brought Mr. Jobs back into the fold, but also gave the company the seed of a new operating system.

苹果购买Next后，不但把乔布斯重新带回苹果，也给公司带来了一个新的操作系统。

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My father often said that the most important entrepreneurial seed a company grows is the talent that represents it.

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With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a single idea:that amorphous and disordered materials could be better and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.

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With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a revolutionary idea of physics: that a random, amorphous collection of atoms would be more powerful and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.

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