Much of the potential for European economic development lay in what at first glance would seem to have been only sleepy villages.

欧洲经济增长的大部分潜力存在于一些小镇中，那些乍一看似乎很寂静、冷清的小镇。

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Around streetlights in leafy suburbs, what often seems like a moth at first glance may, in fact, be a small bat.

在绿树成荫的郊区，街灯周围经常有乍一看像是飞蛾的东西，事实上可能是一只小蝙蝠。

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Yet what is not obvious at first glance is that deferred construction still applies!

但是初看起来不那么明显的是延迟构造仍然在起作用！

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That's what we look at first glance.

乍一看，我们会这么想。

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The pieces that we pulled off the shelf here were ultimately reduced to things like 4 loops and what we'll call functions and what we'll call abstraction; and all these fundamentals that at first glance might have some fairly RK and jargon associated with them.

我们可以把现有的课程,分为四大领域,以及应用型课程和抽象理论课程,乍一看，所有这些基础课程,都可能会和RK及与之相关的术语联系在一起。

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What at first glance appears to be a jumble of boulders was probably a workshop where expert stonecutters practiced their trade. (One chunk of granite has been carved into almost-finished steps.) Another large stone, known as Serpent Rock, has snakes etched into its top surface.

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But we had a little more difficulty calling out British Prime Minister David Cameron for what might at first glance look like much the same thing.

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With a menu built mainly around the traditional soft, fluffy bao, a staple of real-deal Chinese cooking, BaoHaus does the most it can with what, at first glance, seem to be modest goals: sandwiches, but with a twist, rice and noodle bowls, and in-house made drinks.

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