"The Hewlett-Packard news brings a better tone to the market, which has been in a kind of holding pattern," said one trader.

“惠普的消息带给一直处于停滞的市场一个较好的基调，”一位贸易商说道。

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Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of fly paper on which they become increasingly stuck.

通常，这是通过粘捕器来实现的，这是一种苍蝇纸，它们在上面越来越粘。

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It's probably a kind of tree from which other trees that grow in Australia today evolved.

它可能是一种树，今天在澳大利亚生长的其他树就是从它进化而来的。

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The study was partly supported by Vibram, which makes a kind of footwear that it says is like running barefoot.

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The longing heart accumulates desires that become in time a kind of volatile waste, which can't be contained.

渴望的心聚集欲望,假以时日便成了,会挥发不能抑制的废物。

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And there just happens to be a major here which is a kind of an intersection of all those things.

现在有一门专业能够将这3门专业结合在一起。

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It became clear that there was often a threshold moment during which some kind of a challenge or trigger prevented the recovering person from accessing his or her cognitive resources.

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There are also a number of other unanswered questions about some of Iran's nuclear activities that have not been clarified, like its work in a more advanced centrifuge, its work with uranium tetrafluoride, which is a kind of a salt that's a step in the process that leads to uranium enrichment.

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There's a very thick pall of smoke which smells kind of like a mixture of menthol and charcoal because there are quite a few eucalyptus trees in the forest.

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