What was unexpected, however, was that they saw all the materials in various stages of development, from their simplest forms to their most complex ones.

真正让人意想不到的是，他们在研究中发现了基本元素在各个不同加工阶段的形态，包括最简单基础的分子和最复杂的化合物。

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Status flags represent one of the simplest forms of microcomputer logic.

状态标志是微计算机逻辑中的一种最简单的形式之一。

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Unless otherwise stated, all answers should be expressed in numerals in their simplest forms.

除非特别声明，答案须用数字表达，并化至最简。

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Matisse was a master of expressing great beauty using the simplest combinations of colors and forms.

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In their simplest forms, debt financing is when a startup agrees to pay back a loan with a predetermined timeframe and interest rate and equity financing is when the business sells ownership shares in exchange for funding.

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Even while British code breakers were cracking the Enigma machine and altering the course of the war, Americans were developing one of the most secure, efficient forms of encryption, which was also one of the simplest.

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For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build from the simplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.

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