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But, however wonderful and however different from Darwinian evolution those putative cranes may be, they cannot be magic.
但是，不論那些假定存在的起重機(jī)有多麼的神奇，與達(dá)爾文進(jìn)化有多麼的不同，它們不可能有魔力。
The crime is gender-neutral, and contains no age exemption for putative defendants; whether the perpetrator is male or female, 14 or 40, it is still a felony.
這條罪不受性別限制，對(duì)假定的被告也沒(méi)有年齡限制，無(wú)論違法者是男性或女性，14嵗或者40嵗，它還是一條重罪。
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) took place in Washington, DC. Among other things, the event allows Republican activists to assess their putative presidential candidates.
年度的保守派政治行動(dòng)會(huì)議在華盛頓擧行，除此之外，該會(huì)議最後還允許共和黨活動(dòng)家們?cè)u(píng)估他們假定的縂統(tǒng)候選人。

Now let's go and fill the molecular states for the putative He2.
現(xiàn)在我們要填充分子狀態(tài),對(duì)於假定的He2來(lái)說(shuō)。
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Solis concedes that both of these are potential holes in the putative U.S. defense.
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If you describe someone or something as putative, you mean that they are generally thought to be the thing mentioned.