Novels and poems are read in a prescribed temporal sequence, whereas a picture has no clear place at which to start viewing, or at which to finish.

人们会按既定的时间顺序阅读小说和诗歌，但一幅画却没有明确的让人开始或结束欣赏的地方。

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In doing so, he hopes to get a clearer picture of the sequence of events that caused the injuries.

他希望这么做能获得更为清晰的画面，以显示造成伤害的事情发生的先后顺序。

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I can picture, quite vividly, the sequence of events that will lead to the discovery.

我能想象到未来将发生的一系列事件，清晰地如同正在眼前发生一般。

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So you know everywhere on this picture you could write down exactly what the sequence of nucleotides are that make up this vector.

所以你能准确的知晓,组成图上这个载体的任何一处的核酸序列

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"I call on them to keep up the pressure in their efforts to identify a clear picture and a sequence of events, " he said in a statement.

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The final product is a sequence of transcripts that provide a picture of the transcriptome itself.

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Even at the awkward angle from which we view the picture, we read it from left to right, as we do the sequence of the three paintings, but we also read from right to left, from the source of illumination above to its objects below.

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