The right way to think about your career is like compound interest;

思考你职业生涯的正确方式是复利思维；

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"Ideally, we can use this information to develop a morphine-like compound that does not have the typical dependency and tolerance issues that morphine has, " Mocchetti said.

莫凯蒂说：“最理想的就是，我们可以利用这些知识研发出一种类似于吗啡的化合物，但不具有吗啡所拥有的典型依赖性和耐受性问题。”

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Judge Sweet said the patent office thinks DNA should be treated like any other chemical compound.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

But in terms of drugs that don't look like maybe this compound was used in the synthesis, many of them might have used thionyl chloride, because it generates such a nice reactive intermediate that you can go on and make a bunch of different compounds from that intermediate.

但是对于药物来说,它们可能跟合成过程中用到的这种化合物并不相像，很多药物的制造过程中都会用到亚硫酰氯，因为它能产生活性如此之高的反应中间体,以至于你可以继续利用反应中间体,来制造一堆不同类型的化合物。

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Tens of millions of dollars have been poured into projects to help the people, like a $50 million Afghan police compound that will open later this summer.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Bisphenol-A is also a very weak estrogen-like compound that binds weakly to a set of hormone receptors.

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