All they can be sure of is that colleges will accept or reject them, and it's like being accepted or rejected for a date-only much more intense, and their parents know all the details.

他们惟一确信的，就是大学可能接受也可能拒绝他们，就像约会可能被接受或拒绝一样——只不过前者更严重一些，而且父母会知道有关的一切细节。

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Of course, the Greeks only allowed men to fight in the phalanx, but we are much more elevated than that.

当然,希腊人的方阵中只允许男人参战,但我们比那时可开化多了

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The only objection to be made to it perhaps indeed is that much of the time, it's just more trouble than it's worth to enforce it.

唯一存疑的地方可能是,在大多数时间，实行它太麻烦了。

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now we're dealing with a lot of different atoms in the molecule, much more complicated than the initial case of the cyanide ion where we only had two.

现在我们要面对的分子中有很多不同的原子，比我们一开始只有两个,原子的氰离子复杂多了。

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He was not only much more hard-working than his elder brother (he started kindergarten a year early and graduated from the University of Texas in two-and-a-half years).

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Previously it was thought that only much more expensive lasers (ultra-short pulsed lasers) could be used to make metals appear black, thereby making the process impractical for industrial use.

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But there was only so much more cutting he could do.

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