Both existing and new foundations were used to support a concrete grid that extends out from the original building.

利用现存的和新的地基，以支撑原有建筑扩建的混凝土网络。

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Hobbes is typically concerned with the foundations of this new science, getting the building blocks right from the beginning.

霍布斯特别关注,这门新科学的奠基，从一砖一瓦开始建筑。

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The blueprints contained in the Dodd-Frank Act may have been agreed, but the new foundations and walls must still be laid brick by brick.

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The power of the state was built up on new foundations to something like the status which it had enjoyed in Roman times, and endowed with a bureaucratic apparatus such as Rome had never had.

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The new foundations are being laid.

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