Best of all, the yen is not a sterile asset like gold.

最重要的是，日元并不是像黄金那样的“不结果”资产。

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At the CBI Denver Crime Lab, technicians shake out the items in a sterile room, onto a large, white slab covered with paper.

在 CBI 丹佛犯罪实验室，技术人员在一间无菌室里把这些物品抖出来，放到一个铺着纸的白色大平板上。

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Much easier to keep a flask of cells under very sterile, very reproducible conditions than it is to keep a small animal, right?

保存一小瓶细胞，该细胞可在无菌条件下再生，这要比保存小动物容易的多，对吗？

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Seed germination in sterile nutrients is now a common way to reproduce orchids.

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Much easier to keep a flask of cells under very sterile, very reproducible conditions than it is to keep a small animal, right?

保存一小瓶细胞,该细胞可在无菌条件下再生,这要比保存小动物容易的多

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and I think a lot of people might think that it's a very sterile subject,

许多人也许认为文学枯燥无味，

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"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.

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Sterility guidelines, such as draping the patient in a sterile sheet and wearing a mask and gown, are often forgotten.

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Debates about how to cut spending tend to get stuck in a sterile argument about whether it is best to dictate a standard reduction across the board and tell departments to get on with it (as happened in Sweden), or to pick on particular areas (as in Canada).

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