The principle—that polluters pay for the damage they cause—is easily grasped, and it is politically attractive to tax “bads” such as pollution instead of “goods” such as work and entrepreneurship.

谁污染谁负责，这条原则很容易掌握，而且从政策实施层面来讲对污染等“坏事儿”而不是工厂、企业等“好事儿”收税非常有吸引力。

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The principle is the same: These dependencies are hard to start and slow to interact with, and they cause your tests to fail more often than they should.

原理是一样的：这些依赖项很难启动，交互起来也很慢，这使得测试比平时更容易失败。

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We can, in principle, now estimate how large a meteorite would have to have been to cause catastrophic events.

原则上，我们可以估算陨石撞击会引发多大程度的灾难性事件。

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the Hudson Institute scholar argues that the principle cause of continued violence in the Middle East - and the reason so many peace initiatives have failed - is Arab culture itself.

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Although unlikely to have any effect if it did happen, the principle is cause for concern.

ECONOMIST: Human fertility

Now, however, literary transfers are so common that they do not cause much of a stir unless some great principle is involved.

ECONOMIST: Frankfurt book fair

The principle behind these experiments is that particles hitting the xenon cause the nucleus of the atom to give off a little bit of light.

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