Without the Higgs to spur spontaneous symmetry-breaking, it turns out, the edifice of fundamental physics—and no fewer than eight of the Nobel prizes awarded to 20 physicists over 35 years—would stand on shaky ground. No wonder boffins have their eye on the news from Geneva.

事实证明，要是没有希格斯介子刺激自发地对称性破坏，基础物理学的大厦就会摇摇欲坠，三十五年来不下八届的诺贝尔奖颁给二十位物理学家也会岌岌可危。难怪研究人员都关注着日内瓦的消息。

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An independent anti-corruption campaign, as Mr McGregor notes, "could bring the whole edifice tumbling down" .

McGregor先生提到，一次独立的反腐败运动“就能使整座大厦轰然垮塌”。

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Einstein's edifice is constructed on an experimental fact: that the velocity of light is independent of your own motion.

爱因斯坦的理论大厦基于这样一个实验事实：即光速与你自身的运动速度无关。

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But they are still insignificant in the mighty edifice of support.

但是在强大基础的支撑之下并不明显。

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And it actually was an edifice , a house, which bore a number on the street!

而那确是一座建筑物，一座临街的有门牌号数的房屋！

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It has also scuttled chunks of the intelligence edifice that cast a long, dark shadow over its smaller neighbour.

很多叙利亚情报人员也离开了，以至于在小邻国黎巴嫩拖出了一条长长的黑暗的阴影。

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The great edifice of royalty is now mostly a show, a soap, a family saga: "The Archers" with more believable characters, and better jokes.

宏伟的皇室现在大多数是一场秀、肥皂剧和家族传奇：“弓箭手”有很多令人信服的特征和一些好笑的笑话。

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Despite North Korea's obstinate commitment to central planning, the market is growing like a vine in the cracks of the socialist edifice .

尽管朝鲜顽固恪守核心计划，但市场这个如同社会主义大厦的墙缝中生长的一株藤蔓一样不断攀爬增长。

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Rockfeller critics were fond of accusing him of having an "edifice complex. "

批评洛克菲勒的人喜欢挖苦他，说他患有建筑狂。

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Batman was also filmed standing atop the sleek edifice last year.

去年拍摄的《蝙蝠侠》也是在这栋大厦上摄制的。

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[font=Calibri]THE marvellous edifice of modern finance took years to build. The world had a weekend to save it from collapsing.

人们花了好些年才建起了现代金融的炫丽大厦，却要在一个周末之内防止这座大厦轰然倒塌。

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Mr Shah wants to buy out the residents and replace their embarrassing edifice to socialism with a new tower called Confidence Shanghai.

沙哈想要买下住户的居住权，用一栋名为“自信上海”的新塔楼取代他们这栋令社会主义难堪的大楼。

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Entrenched in the dark side, Vader marched to the temple with a column of loyal clone troopers, gutting the sacred edifice from within.

深陷黑暗面的维德带着一队忠诚的克隆人士兵向圣殿进军，从内部血洗这座神圣的建筑。

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It threatens not just the euro but the entire edifice of the European Union.

受到威胁的不只是欧元，还有欧盟（EU）的总体框架。

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Dominating the skyline for miles, the edifice is a monument to vulgarity and Macau's new prosperity.

耸立在几英里之外的地平线上，这座大厦是澳门粗俗和繁荣的界碑。

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That edifice suddenly looks wobbly as contrarian measures of investor optimism rise.

随着与之相反的投资者乐观指标的上升，突然间，这堵墙看起来有些摇摇欲坠。

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All were detained in the Salem Gaol, a grim edifice of granite blocks, iron-barred windows and brick-walled cells.

所有人都被拘禁在萨勒姆监狱中，这是一栋花岗岩砌成的大楼，铁窗森严，石壁牢固。

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The whole edifice he created, in his proof, is something unmatched, in its scope and depth, in this general area of mathematics.

他的论证中所创造的整个理论体系，其广度和深度是普通数学领域无法比拟的。

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Spanish architects have proposed a 300-storey, 1, 228m edifice for Shanghai.

西班牙建筑师已提出为上海建造一幢高1228米的300层摩天大楼。

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It has undergone numerous extensions and alterations over the years with the current edifice dating back to 1919.

现时在荷李活道的这幢建筑物，修建年份可追溯至1919年。

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Thankfully, the edifice of irresponsibility is now toppling.

幸运的是，“不负责任的大厦”正在坍塌。

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Europe is more of an edifice of the past than the future, said one Chinese commentator.

一位中国评论人士表示，欧洲更像是一座过去的建筑，而不是未来的大厦。

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The digital one, an edifice built of software, takes in all that information and automatically acts on it.

由软件建造的庞大的数字世界则接受所有这些信息并自动采取行动。

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Germany's most pressing European business is to sort out the euro, the foundation on which the European edifice now rests.

在欧洲事务中，德国最紧迫的问题是解决欧元危机，欧元是现在庞大的欧洲赖以存在的基础。

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The exhibition hall is a vast concrete edifice holding all the gifts the "Great Leader" has received over the years.

展览馆是一座大型混凝土建筑，收藏了“伟大领袖”多年来收到的礼物。

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She had hitherto been far more interested in the drab ochre-washed edifice opposite, which was the Police Station.

这以前她倒是对马路对面刷成红色的警察局尖楼顶更感兴趣。

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The edifice belongs to one of three world heritage sites in Georgia, and in theory, is subject to UNESCO's rules.

这座宏伟的建筑属于格鲁吉亚三大世界文化遗产之一，理论上应对遵守受联合国教科文组织相关保护规定。

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The church is now a handsome edifice , most part of which was rebuilt forty or fifty years since.

这座教堂现在是一幢很考究的、大部分是四五十年前盖过的房子。

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That this half-billion-dollar edifice is a good 40-minute drive from a city of any size is part of the plan.

这座造价为5亿美元的大厦距离周边的所有城市足足有40分钟的车程，这一点正是计划的一部分。

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Until, one day, something triggers a loss of confidence in the continued rise of prices, and the whole leveraged edifice crumbles.

直到某一天，某件事情导致人们对价格的不断上升丧失信心，整座由杠杆构建的大厦便轰然倒塌。

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