In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the conflagration.

要对这次战斗有个概念，我们可以想象在一堆可怕的勇士身上点起火来，再来观看这场火灾。

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An electronic reading supplies me with a list of the frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study.

电子阅读给我的感觉就像是一个频率的列表，我只要瞥一眼这个列表，就能知道这本书对我的研究可能会有怎样的帮助。

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Likewise, because publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates further patents on that idea, it is traditionally safe to take ideas from other areas of print.

同样，因为用任何其他方式公布一种观点都会使该观点永久失效，所以传统上，从其他领域的印刷材料上使用观点是安全的。

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Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

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These encounters with different religious groups and the lack of representation of spiritual life in the media began to form in to an idea which has developed in to this ongoing series.

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Bitcoin is fundamentally an idea about how a new form of stateless currency could operate.

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Actually, I agree that some form of an international gold standard is a good idea.

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