We feared that an advance on the capital would soon follow.

我们担心接下来会马上向首都推进。

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The Purdue scaffold looks like a very interesting approach—it's certainly an advance—but until it's been tested in vivo, it's difficult to comment further.

普渡的支架看起来是个非常有趣的方法——这肯定是一个进步——但是，在进行体内测试之前，很难进一步评判。

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She asked for an advance on her salary.

她要求预支薪金。

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Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received $500,000 as an advance payment for killing him.

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And in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this progression was viewed as an advance, which is not very surprising because the whole theory was put forward by scholars who were basically western monotheists.

在十八十九世纪，这个演变,被认为是一种进步，这并不奇怪,因为整个理论基本上都是由,西方一神论者提出的。

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the first was it didn't bother with the established baseline of what percentage of teenage girls had received an unwelcome sexual advance in the day to day actions with people.

第一个问题是,它并没有涉及到底量度的基准,到底这些十几岁的女孩子们,在白天与人正常交往的时候,所受到的性挑逗的比例为多少。

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Dr Lyle Armstrong, at Newcastle University, said that the study "without doubt" marked an advance for the field.

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This is an advance of Afghan forces taking full responsibility for security in 2014.

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Students who request an advance payment will have those funds deducted from future benefits.

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