1:The telescope's advocates say junking it now would be a false economy.2:Most of the hardware has already been built, so cancelling it, they argue, would mean throwing all that away.[...]113:And they play on fears that America is in danger of losing its pre-eminence in high-budget "big science", following the closure earlier this year of the Illinois-based Tevatron, the second-most-powerful particle accelerator in the world.

1:望远镜的拥护者认为现在放弃它也是假省钱。2:大多数的硬件已经开发完成，因此，他们认为取消他它将意味着前功尽弃。[...]113:随着今年早些时候，世界上第二给力的粒子加速器，伊利诺斯州的一万亿电子伏加速器的关闭，他们担忧美国正面临着失去它在以高预算为支撑的尖端科技领域领先地位的威胁。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-天文学 斥资太空

[...]111:One reason for Mr Higgs's pre-eminence is that he was the only one to postulate a new particle, though this was something he added only after a journal rejected an earlier draft of his paper for lacking a “practical application” (by which physicists mean a testable claim).2:Another reason, Mr Close points out, is a mix-up in one much-cited paper from 1967 by another future Nobel-prize winner, Steve Weinberg, which stated wrongly that Mr Higgs's article had been published before the one by the two Brussels scientists.

[...]111:希格斯杰出的原因之一在于他是唯一假定存在一种新粒子的人，虽然这是在一家杂志因缺乏“实际应用”拒收其论文先前的草稿后他才补充上的东西，而所谓的实际应用是物理学家打算按其进行验证的声明。2:克罗兹指出，另一个原因在于未来的另一位诺贝尔奖得主史蒂夫·温伯格1967年所撰写的被引述最多的论文中的混乱，这篇论文错误地指出希格斯出版的文章在两位布鲁塞尔科学家的文章之前。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-想象的殿堂 House of dreams

1:For now it seems the alternative to a world dominated by America is “No One's World”, the title of Charles Kupchan's book.2:A professor of international relations and a veteran of the Clinton White House, he is the gloomiest of these authors.3:For the first time in history, he says, the world will have no global guardian.[...]114:Western policymakers are deluded to think that they can use their twilight of pre-eminence to lock rising powers into their own values and institutions.

1:现在似乎美国主导世界的另外雏形就是“无主世界”，此为查尔斯·库普乾（Charles Kupchan）的新书名。2:库普乾为国际关系教授，曾为克林顿政府幕僚，他是这些作者中最为悲观的。3:他说，将不会再有世界守护者，此说可谓首开先河。[...]114:西方决策者蒙蔽双眼，自认为他们可以利用自身统领世界的最后暮光限定崛起的力量于他们自己的价值观与体系内发展。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-山姆大叔请留步 Please don’t go

1: At first blush these look like futures that simply failed. But the story is more complex. 2: The Rockefeller Foundation's vision of a “Science of Man” led it to foster a new “molecular biology” at CalTech and other institutions. 3: Today's control of crops through their genes and children through their pharmaceuticals can both be traced back, in part, to that intervention. 4: And then there is the remarkable story of Song Jian. [...]115: A Chinese engineer who had been schooled in control theory in Moscow just after Stalin's death (at which point cybernetics, previously bourgeois and reactionary, became acceptable), he rose to pre-eminence in China's military-industrial complex. 6: Attending a meeting on control theory in Helsinki in the 1970s, he became convinced of the power of crude computer models like those of the Club of Rome's “Limits to Growth”. 7: Importing such modelling to his power base at the Chinese missile and space-flight ministry he became crucial in the enactment of the one-child policy in the 1980s.

1:乍看下，这些内容毫无希望可言，但其实并非如此。2:洛克菲勒基金会对于“人类科学”的愿景促使其在加州理工学院和其他院校发展了“分子生物学”这个新学科。3:如今，通过基因可以对农作物进行控制，并且通过药物能对儿童进行控制，在某种程度上都能对事物进行一定的干预。4:接下来看一看宋健的非凡故事。[...]115:他是一名中国工程师，就在斯大林病逝后不久（此时控制论、曾经的资产阶级和反动分子开始为人们所接受），他前往莫斯科学习控制理论，随后在中国的共军联合体中成为一名出类拔萃的人物。6:1970年代，宋健在赫尔辛基参加了一场有关控制理论的会议，他开始认识到原始计算机模型的力量，正如罗马俱乐部发表的《增长的极限》依据的计算机模型一样。7:随后他便将这类模型引入他在中国导弹与航天部门的动能基地加以研究。他也是1980年代独生子女政策的主要制定者。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-科学究竟有什么用?

"Cornhill" referred to his Welsh hamlet, not the eminence in the City of London.

“康希尔”指的是他所处的一个威尔士的小村庄，不是伦敦的名流。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

"A gallows erected on an eminence admonished the offenders of the fate that awaited them" (William Hickling Prescott).

“山丘上竖着的绞刑架警告命运的反抗者”（威廉·希克林·普雷斯科特）。

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

"My son is a cardinal. " continued the next one. "When he enters a room, people say, 'Hello. Your Eminence '. "

“我的儿子是为红衣主教，”第三位母亲接着说，“他走进房间，人们都说，‘您好，尊敬的主教大人’。”

属类：无分类双语句库-oral.ebigear.com-

The Great American University: Its Rise to Pre-eminence , Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected. By Jonathan R. Cole.

《伟大的美国大学：走向卓越的历程、国内不可或缺的地位、必须受到保护的原因》，乔纳森·科尔著，公共事务出版社出版，共640页。

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Three things in 2010 will affect whether the City manages to retain its pre-eminence .

2010的三件大事将决定伦敦能否保住金融之都的宝座。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

The ad is for a "Corporate Eminence Leader" which is a make-believe title, and make-believe is not a good look if your business is audit.

广告找的是“企业杰出领导者”，这是个“假装”的标题，在审计业，“假装”并不是好形象。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the woods and came to a sort of eminence .

过了一段时间之后，他更深入密林，到了一个高丘地带。

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The latter two symbolized the waning of, respectively, American public and private technological pre-eminence .

后面两件事则分别标志着美国整体和个人的技术卓越性的减弱。

属类：无分类双语句库-bbs.ecocn.org-

eminence Jimmie was a man of some local eminence . . .

吉米是个在当地颇有地位的人

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Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, said it was London's cultural pre-eminence that made it a great world city.

伦敦市长肯•利文斯通（KenLivingstone）表示，正是伦敦的文化优势，才使其成为一个了不起的世界都市。

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That symbolic battle will be replicated in Beijing as the US and China duel for sporting pre-eminence .

美苏那场具有象征意义的争斗将在北京重现：美国将与中国争夺体坛首要地位。

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They see Delaware's pre-eminence in company registrations as the outcome of a race to the regulatory bottom.

他们把特拉华州的公司注册的主导地位看成是公司监管低线竞争的结果。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

The view that the pound kept its pre-eminence long after Britain went into eclipse is, Eichengreen shows, an illusion.

他证明了那种认为英镑在大英帝国衰落之后的很长时间内还保持突出地位的看法是一种幻觉。

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Iron ore's pre-eminence was unchanged from 2009, when it contributed $6. 2bn.

铁矿石的出色表现与2009财年无异，当时该项业务贡献了62亿美元。

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I, because of my philosophical eminence , was early given audience with the Prince of Darkness.

我，因为在哲学上有所建树，较早地得到了觐见黑暗王子的许可。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

I fancy his pre-eminence is due to his muscles of intuition being the strongest and most enduring with which a man has ever been gifted.

我猜测他早期的卓越归因于他的直觉的力量，一个人所能被赋予的最强大、最坚忍的力量。

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I certainly do not want to see Britain lose its pre-eminence in financial services, but a measure of rebalancing seems appropriate.

我当然不想看到英国失去在金融服务业的卓越地位，但一定程度的再平衡看来很有必要。

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And even French wine makers can no longer take their pre-eminence for granted.

现在即使是法国的酿酒商也不敢再以酒业大亨的身份自居。

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Right now, the main country threatening the dollar's pre-eminence is the US.

眼下，对美元霸主地位构成威胁的主要国家就是美国自身。

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The hardcore continuum's claim to pre-eminence has always been that it's not just dance music.

硬核连续体能够脱颖而出之处，就在于它始终不只是简单的跳舞音乐。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

There's nothing we see in the Arctic which suggests the pre-eminence of the oil resources of the Gulf states would be shifted.

在北极我们看不到有什么能替代海湾国家石油资源的优越地位。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

At the war's end, of course, the global pre-eminence of the United States was beyond question.

在那场战争结束之后，美国的全球优势毋庸置疑。

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London's pre-eminence in foreign exchange is such that it doesn't need endorsements.

在外汇交易领域，伦敦的地位如此显赫，以至于它不需要别人给予认可。

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One thing caught my eye about the e-mails. And that was the slogan "building eminence " written across the top of each.

这些邮件有一点引起了我的注意，那就是每封邮件页眉上写的口号：“构建显赫”。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

Their very eminence redeems them from being affected by transient and low impulses.

这种优良品质使人免受短暂和庸俗的冲动影响。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

As a result, the US needs the rest of the world to maintain its pre-eminence , not to dissolve it.

正因为此，美国需要其它国家来保持——而非消弥——它的卓尔不群。

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