The origin of the nation-state idea is unclear.

民族国家概念的起源是不清楚的。

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While Israel's leader refused to accept the two-state idea, it was unbridgeable.

以色列领导人拒绝接受两国共存主张，这是无法弥合的。

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The government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high-speed railway.

预期该政府不会同意向一条新建高速铁路提供国家补助的意见。

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Until Texas became a state, almost all national leaders seemed to accept the idea that Congress did have this power.

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The idea is that there is some state of being with God.

存在同上帝同在的想法。

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Anybody have an idea? What's the one function of state? I'm the system, the rest are the surrounding. What's the one function of state that's constant when I'm doing all my chemical reactions to move my arms around?

态函数又是什么呢？,我是一个系统，其余的是周围的环境,那么当我在做所有的化学反应,去四处移动我的手臂的时候,什么量是常数？

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The real worry behind Mr Netanyahu's shilly-shallying is that he has shown no sign, since his reluctant and caveat-ridden acceptance in June of the two-state idea, that he really envisages, let alone welcomes, a Palestinian state.

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Quite, even to state the idea is to see how ridiculous it is in the current climate.

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As the study authors themselves state, this idea that autistic people might show reduced deficits to the point of losing a diagnosis is not new.

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