They claim the books helped them come up to speed on certain technologies very quickly.

他们声称这些书能够帮助他们非常快速地掌握某些技术。

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When we eat, our blood sugar level rises - and both the speed at which it peaks, and then how quickly our bodies deal with that and get it back to normal, is very important to our health.

当我们吃东西时，血糖上升——当速度达到峰值时，身体的反应速度、以及多久能恢复到正常，对我们的健康来说是非常重要的。

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The speed was dropping off very quickly.

速度很快降了下来。

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It gets to the top speed very quickly.

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One challenge for all the new sequencing companies will be that Illumina and Life Technologies, the market leaders, have been able to increase the speed of their machines very quickly without fundamental changes in technology.

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Then they started to use banks of graphics cards that could do the maths very quickly to speed up the rate at which blocks of work were completed.

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