Three of the devices were defused before they could explode.

其中三个装置在爆炸前被拆除了。

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We could have hundreds of stars, like a globular cluster, and they could collide with each other, they could explode, they could break apart all those forces are internal, they don't count.

我们有几百颗星星，如球状的星云，它们相互碰撞，它们可能爆炸分离，都是内力，可以不计。

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It also could motivate scientists to push for new instruments that can catch other stars at the moment they explode.

此次观测也会激励科学家们去努力开发新仪器，以便发现处于爆炸之初阶段的其他恒星。

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They said the house could explode."

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

They could explode, in showers of near-invisible but lethal bits.

ECONOMIST: Going out all over Europe, and beyond

Appeal judges ruled the jury in their trial was entitled to find them guilty for sending devices they believed could explode and cause injury.

BBC: Trevor Muirhead and Neil McKenzie