The final step came when steam was introduced into the cylinder to drive the piston backward as well as forward, thereby increasing the speed of the engine and cutting its fuel consumption.

最后一步是将蒸汽引入气缸，使得活塞前后推动，从而提高了发动机的速度，降低了燃料消耗。

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The first step in cutting costs is finding the right glass and production process for the job.

削减开支的第一步是找到正确的玻璃和生产过程。

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US and Russian negotiators will meet in Rome tomorrow to take the first step towards a new nuclear disarmament treaty that will involve cutting hundreds of weapons from both countries' arsenals.

美国和俄罗斯的谈判代表将于明天在罗马会面，向签订新的核武器削减条约迈出第一步，该条约将包括削减两国武器库中的数百件核武器。

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Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said cutting health care costs step by step is better than the Democrats' plan.

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With this, if I can assume that accessing the i'th element of a list is constant, then you can't see that the rest of that analysis looks just like the log analysis I did before, and each step, no matter which branch I'm taking, I'm cutting the problem down in half.

读取数组中的第i个元素,是个常量时间的操作的话，我也就能像以前那样得到,这个算法是对数级复杂度的分析,并且每一步不管我选择哪个区间，我都可以把问题的规模缩小一半。

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The first step is to take the DNA fragments that we're interested in and put them into this vector by basically cutting open the double stranded DNA and inserting the gene that we like in the region where we've cut.

第一步是把我们感兴趣的DNA片段,整合到这个载体里,基本的方法是切开质粒这个双链DNA,把我们想要的基因插入切开的区域

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The Israeli government has taken the unusual step of cutting all ties with an American preacher, the television evangelist Pat Robertson.

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Speaking earlier at the summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he believed an agreement was in sight, with recent moves by some countries a positive step to cutting emissions.

BBC: Commonwealth leaders back climate change fund

The world's largest drug firm's new chief executive, JeffreyKindlerJeffrey Kindler, has said he wants to "transform" the company and took the unprecedented step of cutting some 2, 000 jobs from the drug giant's 10, 000-strong U.S. sales force.

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