When it emerged towards the end of the 1980s as a purely text-based medium, it was seen as a tool to pursue knowledge, not pleasure.

20世纪80年代末，当它作为一种纯文本媒介出现时，它被视为一种追求知识而非快乐的工具。

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Let's look at this through the other end of the microscope. The fact we can control a paper page is really a limitation of that medium.

事实上，我们对纸张媒体的控制才是真正的局限。

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China's exports to the United States are mainly medium - and low-end products such as garments, footwear, toys and electronics, little or none of which is produced in America.

中国的出口产品大多是中低档产品，诸如服装鞋袜、玩具电器等日常消费品，大部分在美国已不生产，或少生产，但又是美国消费者所需要的。

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On paper, 80-cores sounds impressive, but when the software isn't doing anything imaginative with them it's actually rather disappointing: during a demonstration, Intel could only manage to get 1 Teraflop out of the chip, a figure which many medium- to high-end graphics cards are easily capable of.

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Mr Aznar has stated that he intends to be the man who puts an end to Spain's medium-nation status.

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Smith's customers are U.S. manufacturers doing small and medium-size production runs, either for their own end products or as contract suppliers to other U.S. manufacturing firms.

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