Such things have a powerful impact in the tiny Gulf state, and may explain why Qatar is so far the only Arab country that looks likely to dispatch warplanes to help impose the no-fly zone.

这些事件在卡塔尔这个小小的海湾国家引起了轩然大波，也许这可以解释为什么卡塔尔是迄今为止唯一一个有可能派遣战机帮助实施禁飞区的阿拉伯国家。

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In the past doing without tail fins would have created an aircraft that is difficult to fly. But things have now changed.

在过去，没有尾翼的飞机很难飞行，然而，现在情况发生变化了。

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When physicists puzzle out the workings of some new part of nature, that knowledge can be used to build devices that do amazing things — airplanes that fly, radios that reach millions of listeners.

每当物理学家们揭开大自然的一些新规律，这些知识就可用于制造各种装置，它们实现的功能让人叹为观止——例如，飞机可自由行走于天地间，广播可让千万人足不出户，遍知天下事。

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One of the great things about fly fishing is that its practitioners, like me, are able to stay in touch with it even when we are homebound, marooned in trout-less urban landscapes.

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If things were really that bad, I figured, I could always fly home early.

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Many things human beings do are like that, of course: catching fly balls, manufacturing microchips, delivering overnight packages.

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