Without the base, the skyscraper can't be built.

没有地基，摩天楼就不能建成。

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Without the base, the skyscraper can 't be built.

没有了地基，就建不成摩天大楼。

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Without the base, the skyscraper can't be built up.

没有这个基础，大楼就起不来。

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At the Chicago White Sox U.S.Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side, the 30-year-old pitcher retired all 27 batters from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays without allowing anyone to reach first base, pitching a perfect game and putting his name in a record book occupied by only 17 others in Major League history.

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Peter Pham, Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Political Science and Africana Studies at James Madison University, says conditions in Somalia threaten security and stability of the Horn of Africa: "Even without toppling the TFG, al-Shabaab has already achieved a major objective by securing a territorial base from which like-minded militants and terrorists can carry out attacks elsewhere, especially against targets in the Arabian Peninsula as well as participating in the current violence against Somalis,".

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But what makes Sorger's method stand out is the difference in how it approaches the problem of scaling to the human body: the Swift scales, where other bicycles may simply get taller without increasing the wheel base.

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Today, there is a wide range of LED bulbs available at IKEA that enable customers to easily change old incandescent bulbs to LED without changing the lamp base.

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But those ruses frequently alienated the base without adding new supporters.

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