The painter Peter Brandon never dated his works, and their chronology is only now beginning to take shape in the critical literature.

画家彼得·布兰登的作品从来没有标注过日期，其时间表现在才开始在批评文献中形成。

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In 1912 women's events were added, and the modern Olympic programme began to take shape.

1912年增加了女子项目，现代奥林匹克运动会开始初具雏形。

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How does such a relationship take shape?

这种关系是怎么形成的呢？

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After months of rigorous debate on health insurance reform, fought largely along political party lines, President Obama says a bipartisan solution is starting to take shape.

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So what I do is I take the blocks and I put them back together building a tower, in the very same shape, in the very same structure, the very same order as the tower my son had built.

所以我就拿出积木,重新搭了一座塔，不管是形状，结构还是，积木的排列顺序,都和我儿子搭的一模一样。

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When it is cooked at a very high temperature, the glass pieces melt and take the shape of the clay form.

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Puris says his firm should turn a profit next year as more projects take shape.

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This week, it appears as though a new chapter has begun to take shape.

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And so a new part of the overarching vision of Obamacare is starting to take shape.

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