It was a great deal for the East India Company, since it meant that the company could decide whatever price it wanted for its products.

对东印度公司来说，这是一笔巨大的交易，因为这意味着该公司可以决定自己想要的产品价格。

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While the platform is meant to be used for whatever you want to use it for, there are effective ways to use and there are very ineffective ways to use it.

而平台意味着你随时想用它来做你想做的事情，也就是说它既是你使用的有效方式，也是非常无效的方式。

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Advances in molecular biology in recent decades have meant that scientists are well equipped to work with DNA and program it to do whatever they want.

分子生物学近几十年来的研究进展表明，科学家们有能力利用DNA进行随心所欲的编程设计。

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And it also meant that I could take whatever classes I wanted to take,

而且，这意味着我可以任意选择我想要上的课程，

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Whatever it meant, it was not a subject deemed worthy of space in that evening's paper.

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