Kennish said that, while the tool is in a primitive state, he hopes it will have a larger effect on the debate over privacy on the Web.

Kennish表示，尽管这个工具还处在初始的状态，他希望能它能对互联网的隐私争论有更大的影响。

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Their explanation for human progress was that there had been periodic floods, or other natural disasters, which repeatedly set back the human race to a primitive state.

他们对人类进程的解释是：一直存在着能反复将人类推回到原始状态的周期性的洪水，或其他自然灾难。

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Then one day, it suddenly came to me that while in my early thirties, I should shake off this state, leave the company, place myself in the utmost primitive state and start all over again.

有一天我突然意识到作为30岁出头的人，应该摆脱这种状态，要离开这个公司，重新把自己放在最原始的状态，让自己重新开始。

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At its peak, hundreds of firms across the country were making something like two million bicycles a year, which was an astonishing number at the time given the primitive state of mass production.

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The Central Bank of Iraq recently broadened the range of tactics it uses to mop up excess liquidity in the system and maintain the dinar's de facto peg to the dollar, which, given the primitive state of Iraq's financial system, is the best mechanism the bank has to keep prices stable.

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