No doubt it seemed like a good idea two-and-a-half years ago, when work began on the hotel.

两年半前开始修建该酒店时，人们似乎都认为这是个好主意。

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The idea of spending two weeks with him may seem heavenly.

这个与他共度两周的主意似乎妙不可言。

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I thought it was a long way to go for two people in their seventies, but Sylvia loved the idea.

我认为对于两个七十多岁的人来说这是一段很长的路，但是西尔维娅却喜欢这个主意。

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Local control of education probably was a good idea two hundred years ago.

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So this is just the idea that the most electrons that you can have in a single orbital is two electrons.

这个观点是在一个单个的轨道中,最多容纳两个电子。

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It's great idea with a lot of hard work and then you work at it for year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six years, seven years, eight, nine, 10.

勤奋的工作，一年两年，三年,有或者更多，甚至10年，是很好的想法。

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"The Chinese ministry of commerce came up with the idea two years ago, " recalls Faisal.

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So what was just an idea two decades ago is now rolling off assembly lines in cutting-edge fuel efficient cars that you can plug in at night.

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It was the pupils, aged between four and nine, who prompted the idea of two-wheeled transport.

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