我们已经在这一项目上投入了一笔相当大的资金。

We have spent a not inconsiderable amount of money on the project already.

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事实上，一些裸鳃亚目动物会从它们的食物中储存毒素，使得这种类似鼻涕虫的生物对捕食者来说是致命的。

Indeed, some nudibranchs store up toxins from their diet of poisonous sponges, making the slug-like creatures themselves deadly to predators.

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生物学家们长期认为，两类鳍脚亚目动物，即海狮和海象，都是从一种陆地上的类似于熊的动物繁衍而来的。

Biologists have long maintained that two groups of pinnipeds, sea lions and walruses, are descended from response to similar environmental pressures.

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So, a part of you wants to become the greatest whatever it is that you want to become and you wouldn't be here if you weren't very competitive and very eager to come out first, devoted to arete and your own version of that kind of thing.

所以 你的一部分意识想变成最伟大的人,不论你想要在哪个领域变得伟大,而且如果你没有竞争力,或不是一直争取第一,那你也不会坐在这里,力图更上一层楼,以穷千里目

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