People discovered their medicinal value.

人们发现了它们的药用价值。

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This is a very old concept and this is actually how people discovered websites before search engines even existed.

这是一个古老的概念，即便在搜索引擎还未出现时，人民实际上就已经使用它来发现网站。

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For example, ancient people discovered that drops of water and certain gemstones distorted light in a predictable way.

例如，古人观察到了水滴和某些雕琢过的宝石可以把光按照一定的方向折射出去。

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"There are all sorts of rovers and stuff up there that are waiting to be discovered when people go up there."

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The Washington Post surveyed its readership and discovered that ask people what they thought was the most significant causes of the shooting.

华盛顿邮报》在读者中进行了调查,并且发现当询问人们,他们认为,枪杀案发生的主要原因是什么。

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Lo and behold, their bonds would go up because people had discovered that you might be entitled to par.

你可以发现，他们的债券价格会上升因为人们,已经发现你可能有权以票面价值。

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Earlier this year, people discovered that Polish developer CD Projekt RED was taking legal action against pirates of their game The Witcher 2.

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Then some people discovered that you could do the same thing over the internet but instead of paying by the hour, you would pay a flat monthly fee (more convenient).

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"I don't think that either the people who discovered BCL-2 in the late '80s or the people at Genta back in 1992 knew what they were picking up, " says Warrell.

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