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It is said that another suicide bombing occurred in the country yesterday.

据称，昨天在这个国家又发生了一起自杀式炸弹事件。

I try to be punctual in getting dinner on the table.

我一向设法让晚餐菜肴准时上餐桌。

Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？