Most world-championship games, he claimed, were pre-arranged, proof that the “old chess” was dead, and rotten to the core.

他宣称，大多数世界冠军比赛都是事先安排好的，这证明了旧的国际象棋体制已经寿终正寝。

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All our houses are being built with pre-cast Windows that have been designed to be earthquake proof by the Pondicherry Engineering College nearby.

Ratchegar说：“我们所有的房屋都将安装由附近的本地治里工程学院设计的预制抗震窗。”

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The key message is that there are now quite a few pre-clinical developments which will be tested over the next one or two years in small, so-called "proof of concept" trials.

今天所讲到的要点就是，现在有相当多临床前期的进展将在未来一年或两年内通过一些小的、所谓的“概念证明”试验来加以验证。

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Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.

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The same is true for the Washington, DC, area, where an all-but-recession-proof economy based on the federal government has already managed a return to pre-downturn output levels.

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