The old idea that this work was not suitable for women was no longer tenable.

认为这种工作不适合妇女的旧想法再也站不住脚了。

《牛津词典》

Scientific work is differentiated from art by its necessary connection with the idea of progress.

科学工作不同于艺术在于它与进步的概念有必然联系。

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It sounds like a good idea, but I don't think it will work practically.

这个主意听起来不错，但我认为它实际上行不通。

《牛津词典》

For many years after Mister Harrison's work was completed, the idea of using a clock to learn longitude was rejected.

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And the idea was that gravity did work on the water and falling, and that work led to the generation of heat.

焦耳的想法是,重力对水，做了功。

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It will surface back up in another piece of work or another idea at some point in your life.

在某个时刻，旧点子会以另一种形式重新出现,或者另一个想法在会出现在你的生活中。

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What Lanier describes as "mashup" culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all.

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Even for such a hermitical figure as Thoreau, idea work was not a solitary activity.

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Other work supports the idea that it is nutrient recovery which is driving the process.

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