The high cost of equipment prohibits many people from taking up this sport.

昂贵的装备令许多人对这项运动望而却步。

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Increasingly, more winemakers are taking up the challenge of growing Pinot Noir.

越来越多的葡萄酒商开始接受种植“黑比诺”葡萄的挑战。

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When children end up taking care of their parents, it is a strange role reversal indeed.

当孩子们最终照看起父母来的时候，这确实是一个奇怪的角色转变。

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The museum not only has a display area open to the public, but also has an archival collection of more than one million specimens taking up three floors.

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That is to say, what we're taking up this week, is as much really the history of criticism as literary theory.

也就是说，我们这周要讲的，与其说是文学理论，不如说是文学评论的历史。

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If you have a project at work that is taking a lot of time and the deadline is coming up very soon,

如果你在工作上接手了一个项目，已耗费了大量时间，而交付日期马上就要到了，

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Each is designed to do a lot of the hand-holding necessary for an early stage technology venture without taking up lots of resources.

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They are kind of small and bigger buttons seems like it would be easier to use along with taking up more of all that empty landscape.

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Forty people have so far said they were interested in taking up one of the plots.

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