This is, of necessity , a brief and incomplete account.

这必然是一份简略的、不完全的描述。

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For the time before records began, we have only "proxy records" reconstructed largely from tree rings and ice cores, supplemented by a few incomplete written accounts.

在开始有记录之前，我们只有主要根据年轮和冰芯重建的“代理记录”，还有一些不完整的书面记录作为补充。

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Although incomplete, it still made Xu a travelling legend around the world.

虽然（他的日记）不完整，但它仍然让徐霞客成为了一个环游世界的传奇。

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A message on the morning of July second was incomplete.

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What you might do, for instance, is be sitting at a computer screen and you'll be given incomplete words to fill out "hos-" like "hos-" and you have to fill out this word.

例如，你可以，坐在一个电脑显示器前,你要补充一连串不完整的单词,例如补充完整。

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"What we are trying to do is to present an incomplete specimen in a complete way.

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The shelves on Tokyo's supermarkets are incomplete without a selection of Hokkaido camemberts.

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Just as its Western cousin, the hamburger, remains incomplete without a squirt of ketchup or a dollop of relish, a vada pav lies naked without red or green chutney, or both.

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Namely, the "I" who is incomplete without a "you".

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