You see it in faculty members who are pleased when their students make a discovery that undermines a cherished theory that they had put forward.

当大学老师的学生作出的发现损害了他们提出的宝贵理论时，你会发现教师们很高兴。

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As delighted as he was with his discovery, Darwin was equally horrified, because he understood the consequences of his theory.

与为自己的发现而高兴一样，达尔文也同样感到恐怖，因为他知道这一理论的后果。

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The original discovery of antimatter was a nice example of theory predicting an undiscovered fact.

反物质的独特发现是理论预示未知世界这一说法的一个极好说明。

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She said the discovery "supports the theory that some of life's ingredients formed in space and were delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite and comet impacts."

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And they had this feeling because there had just been this huge boon of discovery, of scientific advances that included Newtonian mechanics, it included Dalton's atomic theory of matter, also thermodynamics and classical electromagnetism.

他们会有这样的感觉,是因为他们刚，经历科学上的,大繁荣期，包括牛顿力学,道尔顿物质原子理论，热力学和电磁学,都取得了巨大进展。

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You come up with a great idea, but moving that new discovery from theory to practice or from the lab to the marketplace, that's a challenge.

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Medical malpractice lawyers spare no effort trying to get the details of physician reviews, which in many states are protected from legal discovery under the theory that such discussions must be frank in order to improve medical care.

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This theory is used to support the discovery of three marks on the ground in the forest which some claim tally with the tripod feet on the capsule.

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