They don't seem to be responding in a pre-programmed sort of way: it may even be possible that they're able to view a problem and work out what the answer is.

他们似乎没有按预先设定好的方式做出反应：甚至有可能他们能够看到一个问题并找出其答案。

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When you're hired by a big, established company, you have a pre-defined career path laid out in front of you.

当你被制度成熟的大型企业雇佣，你的面前就会有了一条预先设定好的事业之路。

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On Wednesday he took aides out for pre-birthday burgers and fries on Capitol Hill before leaving Washington for a campaign fundraiser in his adopted home town of Chicago.

星期三，他带着助手去国会大厦参加了生日前的汉堡包和炸薯条庆祝活动，然后出发去他被收养的家乡芝加哥参加资金筹集活动。

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So these names, they don't really make any sense why they're called past s p and f, and it turns out that it comes from spectroscopy terms that are pre-quantum mechanics where, for example, this is called the sharp line, I think the principle, the diffuse, and the fundamental.

看到这些名字，你会发现,它们为什么叫s，p，f是没什么道理的，事实上,它们来源于,量子力学之前的光谱学中的术语，例如，它们分别叫做锐线，我认为是主线，漫射和基本。

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So, it seemed like a good start for me, pre-med/bio, and I signed up for my bio class -- I found out, as Professor Drennen did, that I had to take chemistry as well. I wasn't as upset, I was sort of a neutral chemistry person at this point, but I thought it was pretty smart to get it over with on the first semester, so that's what I did.

一个既在科学上有挑战又能帮助他人的职业，从医学预科或者生物起家-,我参加了生物课，我和Drennen教授一样，我也必须要上化学课，我并没有很不爽,我当时对化学的态度很中立。

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The life-like digital avatar is placed in key points around the airport, such as just before security, and reads out pre-recorded messages covering a variety of common topics.

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If they do, then more firms may be encouraged to collaborate in developing new software instead of trying to forestall their rivals by taking out pre-emptive patents.

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The research team hopes the simulated bee brain will produce a robot that can make decisions about what it senses rather than just carry out pre-programmed tasks.

BBC: Bee brains help to make robots smarter