Lord Hertford flew to Tom, but returned to the King before very long, troubled and empty-handed.

赫德福伯爵飞跑到汤姆那里，但不久就回到了国王那里，两手空空，心里很不安。

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Consequently, early BBSs were very locally oriented systems, but before too long the limitations gave birth to phone phreaking and other hacks.

因此，早期的BBS完全是面向本地的系统，但很快，这些限制就产生了盗用电话线路和其他一些技巧。

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Keep playing like this and it will be a very long time before they return to the lower leagues.

如果一直持续这样的发挥，他们短期之内是不可能降级的。

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This actually relates very closely to what we discussed in class on Friday before the long weekend, and what we were talking about is the energy levels of multielectron atoms.

这实际上与,上个长周末之前的周五的课上,我们所讨论的内容有着密切的联系，当时我们在讨论,多电子原子的能级。

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For example, it could be up to 17, 18 year period before the money comes back, and that's a very long period of time to finance, and that's a serious disadvantage of the graduate tax approach.

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Photoelectric is much more straightforward and is very responsive to fires that are characterized by a long period of smoldering before flames occur.

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