Portal 2 May not quite pack the same lightning-in-a-bottle sense of revelation as its forebear, but it succeeds admirably at following in its storytelling footsteps.

传送门2可能不完全像上一部作品那样充满“瓶中闪电”似的、令人耳目一新创意，但是在剧情方面异曲同工，取得了值得称道的成就。

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The 8-inch model is as complex as its forebear, with 120 parts that snap together to form 12 jointed legs, a spinelike crankshaft, and a wind turbine.

这个8英寸长的模型和30英尺长的模型同样复杂——120个部件拼接到一起，组成了12条有关节的腿、一条脊椎和一个风力叶轮机。

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Our forebear might even teach us a few old tricks that could be used to help the living.

祖先甚至可以教我们一些有助于生活的古老窍门。

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His father came from a line of Norman squires claiming a forebear who sailed with William to conquer England in 1066.

ECONOMIST: Liberty and democracy

If this sounds weirdly narcissistic, consider that the movement has a forebear in a quintessential American: Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of self-tracking.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Humana, a pioneer of for-profit health care (and a forebear of Galen, which Columbia bought in 1993), spent much of the 1980s besieged by investigators and lawsuits.

ECONOMIST: American health care