有人认为是因为前人打下的基础我们才得以享受今天的繁荣。

Some believe that it was our predecessors who laid the foundations for the prosperity we enjoy today.

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更为普遍的说法是，对于英国经济的未来，吸引外资比庇护国内企业打下的基础要好。

More generally, attracting foreign cash is a better foundation for Britain’s economic future than shielding national champions.

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你不知道就是因为你在童年时期为他们打下的基础，在你的孩子中间可能真的会成为一个生物学家。

You never know if one of your children might actually grow up to be a zoologist because of the foundation you laid during their childhood!

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It's probably also worth underlining the fact that what I've really been doing is running through a series of arguments.

为这样的事实打下基础也是很有价值的,我正在做的,是将一系列的论证串联起来

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These, in turn, became the basis of the first European universities in places like Bologna, Paris, Oxford.

同时也为之后,欧洲大学的创立打下基础,位于波隆那，巴黎及牛津。

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And the challenge that we gave to ourselves is can we do that packaging in such a way that lays a ground work for community learning coming out of people who got involved in looking at the experiment of knowledge updates.

我们自己面临的挑战是,究竟能否,借用技术打包,为知识更新实验的,观看者的群体学习打下,坚实的基础。

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