The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.

不切实际的穿越沙漠计划已成泡影。

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They would first have to work out some scheme for getting the treasure out.

他们首先得想出某种计划把珍宝取出来。

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Mexico was the first country to qualify for the scheme last week, when the IMF agreed to provide it with up to $47 billion in emergency credit for a one-year period.

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So, we need to find another scheme, and that solution was provided for us by G. N. Lewis.

所以我们需要寻找另一个理论来解释，而G。N。Lewis已经提供了答案。

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Under the scheme, Russia would further enrich the uranium to the 20 per cent purity needed for use in a research reactor in Tehran which produces medical isotopes but is running out of fuel.

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The second mental error was clinging to a defensive scheme when the other team had demonstrated an ability to exploit that scheme for its own gain.

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The SEC has been criticized for failing to identify the Ponzi scheme and for its failure to respond to whistleblowers and their warnings that Mr. Madoff's operations were a fraud.

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Like many companies, it stopped contributing to its pension scheme for a while when the stockmarket boom was producing what was reckoned to be sustainable pension surpluses.

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