Shenyang takes the lead of the first application for multipurpose CPU smart card. Such a kind of card is very convenient, and improves the quality of life of the city.

沈阳市率先应用城市一卡通，为市民提供了便捷服务，提高了城市的生活质量。

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Now, the first application tends to not be quite as exciting as, for example, all the other organisms people have put it in since then you can have flies, you see transgenic mice that are glowing green with this GFP.

现在看来，第一个应用不像之后,其它放入一些生物一样激动人心,你可以用苍蝇，你可以看到发绿光的转基因老鼠。

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It is the first application for consent in the latest of the Crown Estate's offshore leasing rounds.

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The Pelican's successful flight probably means that the first big application for power beaming will be supplying energy to drones.

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In other words, the first inventor to file an application for an invention gets the patent, not the first person to invent something.

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