Suddenly, the forbidden fruit of the Ghost Island seemed just within grasp, and we knew we wanted to try.

突然间“幽灵岛”这颗“禁果”变得触手可及，我们决定应该试试。

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A cure for MRSA appears to be within grasp after scientists claimed to have developed a drug that destroys the most virulent strains of the deadly superbug.

一种新的对付MRSA（一种对抗生素有极强抗药性的金黄葡萄状球菌，是医院内主要的感染源）的方法即将成功。 科学家宣称已经研发了一种新的药物可以摧毁这种致命的超级细菌。

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Success was within her grasp.

她有把握获得成功。

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But Rand's life-long crusade--defeating socialism--which appeared within grasp just two decades ago when the Soviet Union collapsed, now seems to have regressed to the 1930s, when FDR used the economic meltdown to massively intervene in private industry.

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Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22, 000 American lives - quite apart from the lives of the Laotians, Cambodians and Vietnamese caught up in the new offensives - before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968.

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Whether and why Mozart is special will become more and more within our grasp.

ECONOMIST: Music as healing