All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

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It resulted in some low levels of scorn from colleagues, but that was of no consequence.

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The hiring itself was of little consequence, but it served to remind the press corps of the scandal.

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The search for antimatter, that staple of science fiction, was the consequence of an equation about electrons which has two sets of solutions, one positive and one negative.

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