The official foundation stone for the dam was laid in 1961.

这座水坝的官方奠基石于1961年埋下。

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If there were a simple way to prevent crises altogether, it would already be the foundation stone of financial regulation.

如果有那么一个简单的方法来全面预防危机，那这个方法早就应该成为金融监管的基石了。

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This simple question is the foundation stone of a growing number of businesses.

这个简单的问题催生了越来越多的生意。

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In June the county, whose tyre, petrochemical and paper-making industries have made it much richer than Huimin, held a foundation-stone ceremony for its own Sun Tzu theme park.

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"Before the end of this year we laid a foundation stone of expanding the brewery to ten-fold of whatever we have now, " she says.

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The foundation stone of the European project has been Franco-German co-operation.

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