The computation was, so to speak, a "proof of principle."

计算是证明的原则，此言不差啊。

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Admittedly the species in question is a virus, but the proof of principle is important.

诚然，这个正被讨论的物种是一个病毒，但其原理的证明却很重要。

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This proof of principle is now ready to be extended to multiple operations, which is by no means a simple accumulation of the operations.

这一原则的证明已经准备推广到并行计算的操作（这并非几个操作的简单累加）。

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Of course, that's not the useful application for it, it's more of a proof of principle, but it does show you that you can put it in for studies in any organisms.

当然，这不是很有用的应用，这仅仅是一个原理上的证明，但它告诉你你可以把它,放到研究任何生物体中。

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But it would offer a way to make better raincoats, and is also a proof of principle.

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These results are a proof of principle and a demonstration of huge potential.

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"This is an important proof of principle, " says Ronald Blum , director of the cancer center at Beth-Israel Cancer Center in New York.

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