Inspired by Halley's suggestion of a way to pin down the scale of the Solar System, teams of British and French astronomers set out on expeditions to places as diverse as India and Siberia.

受哈雷提出的确定太阳系大小的方法启发，英国和法国天文学家团队开始在印度和西伯利亚等地考察。

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Managers can be the point of contact to other departments to explain why a system is down.

管理人员可以是其他部门的联络点，用以解释系统停止的原因。

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The trouble is that a lot of what brought down the system was legal.

罗珀说，“而问题在于许多破坏金融系统的行为是合法的。”

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So they built a system of canals to bring water down from the mountains.

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Remember, because that 1 s orbital is all the way down in terms of if we're thinking about an energy diagram, we're all the way down here, so we have a huge amount of energy we have to put into the system in order to eject an electron.

还记得吧，因为1，s，轨道在能量示意图里,是在最底部的，我们要一直到最下面，所以我们要向这个系统注入非常大的能量,才能打出一个电子。

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But they have really had a big scaling down of the mass transit system this year.

但是今年确实大幅度削减了公共交通。

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It can refer to many things, ranging from a pious way of life to a system of corporal and capital punishment, laid down in Islamic law but practised in only a few places.

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What is likely to replace the current model is a new system of scaled down agencies.

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It would provide a refundable tax credit for the purchase of health care, but it would also set up a voucher system for the purchase of Medicare down the road.

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