The people of the province wished to break away and form a new state.

该省人民希望分离成立一个新国家。

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Like most amphibians these begin life in a juvenile "tadpole" state, then metamorphose into the adult form — except for one species, the axolotl, which famously lives its entire life as a juvenile.

像大多数的两栖动物一样，它们从幼年的“蝌蚪”状态蜕变成成年的形式——蝾螈这个物种除外，众所周知，它一生都处于幼年状态。

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Indeed, Johnson was in 1762 awarded a pension by the Crown—a subtle form of sponsorship, tantamount to state patronage.

事实上，1762年，国王授予了约翰逊养老金——一种微妙的赞助形式，相当于国家资助。

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You need a functional form that connects the value at one state of matter, the freezing point of water to another phase change, the boiling point of water.

你需要一个函数形式来,连接物质某个态对应的温度值，如水的冰点，和另一个相变,如水的沸点。

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And ultimately we are going to get to this state where we are going to form a bond.

最终我们将得到这个状态,即形成一根键。

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They have even signed an agreement to form a state-level government together.

ECONOMIST: Bosnia's future

Recently the Brothers have met representatives of the Sunnis' conservative Salafi movement and a handful of Sufi mystics at Baghdad's Um al-Qura mosque to form a State Sunni Council.

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It also provides a robust legal basis for one of the most important issues that is central to the debate ahead of the referendum - namely that in the event of independence the UK would be the continuing state and Scotland would have to form a new state.

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