The things that I’ve written about are people doing the kind of “break new ground” with machines that are essentially tools.

我以前的书里所描写的主要都是人们利用机械工具所实现的新突破。

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Some critics feel they did not break new ground; others the opposite, that they drew serious attention to this terrain.

有些评论家觉得，他们没有另辟蹊径；另一些评论家意见相反，认为他们让该领域引人瞩目。

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The projects break new ground in testing institutional approaches and demonstrating technologies.

这些项目在测试体制模式和进行技术示范方面开辟出一片新天地。

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Workers break ground on the new power plant this month.

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Yortsos said the system will break new ground, much like the first commercially available computer in the United States, the Universal Automatic Computer (Univac).

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But the dissection of individual justification put forward for the ban are tenuous, to say the least, so that the modern doctrine will allow Kagan--and Kennedy--to invalidate the ban without having to break new ground for the first time.

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Monday's ruling on the interstate shipment of wine doesn't break new ground because the reasoning behind it has long been established.

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