While the author thinks that the price of saving species is too high, I assure you that this noble cause is priceless.

虽然作者认为拯救物种的代价太高，但我向你保证，这项崇高的事业是无价的。

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Apprised of it, he says that while "a noble effort, it is a reaction to a series of data transparency blunders rather than a proactive approach to open replication".

获悉后，他说尽管这一做法很高尚，但它是对一系列数据透明度错误的反应，而不是对主动接近公开复制的反应。

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The great push to serve the hundreds of millions of unbanked people, while noble, is just as experimental as Wall Street's adventures in subprime debt.

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While noble rot concentrates the sugars, allowing the water to evaporate and imparting the grapes with an attractive sweetness, gray rot attacks the grapes, leaving them tasting distinctly rotten and ruining at least part of the crop.

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As for the right to education, while noble in its goal of providing every child a schooling, it may have the unintended effect of shutting down good private schools for some of India's poorest children by mandating infrastructure many won't be able to afford.

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