What varies is not the basic form but the incidental details that do not obstruct the object's primary function.

变化的不是基本形式，而是不妨碍物体的主要功能的附属细节。

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The incidental learning opportunities to stimulate the learning Megan to learn the art of enthusiasm.

这次偶然的学习机会激发了习梅根学习剪纸艺术的热情。

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When it comes to the Steven Gerrard assault trial, it's the incidental details that have proved strangely gripping.

在杰拉德酒吧殴斗审讯中，这些事件的细节被证明特别令人抓狂。

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It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

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I want to suggest to you that the fact that it's the religious book for him, for his culture, for his family, is not of course incidental to the fact that it's what reminds him of home.

我想提出一个事实,对于他自己，对于他的文化，对于他的家庭，这是一本有着宗教意味的书,所以这让他想起了家就绝非偶然了。

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The reason: The opportunity for firefighters to practice and test their equipment, a public benefit, outweighs the incidental benefit to the taxpayer.

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In context, this tepid launch is just one of a litany of failures fast relegating Microsoft to the status of incidental spectacle in the information technology business.

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