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What are the exact origins of Maltese people? Their language seems to be closely related to today's Lebanese. Is the Phoenician origin theory viable?
马耳他人的确切起源是什么？他们的语言似乎非常接近现代的黎巴嫩语。腓尼基起源理论是可行的吗？
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It differs from the three known strains and appears to be closely related to a form of the virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers reported today in the journal Nature Medicine.
它不同于已知的三种HIV病毒菌株，似乎和最近在野生大猩猩身上发现的HIV病毒密切相联。
The premise of the project must be closely related to some aspect of the material but may explore an avenue that was left unaddressed in class.
这份专题的前提必须是与教材的某些方面相关，但可以是探讨课堂上未加以叙述的部分。

Scientists thought George would be more closely related to the females from Isabela than to other Galapagos tortoises.

Through genetic testing, they found that the peacocks within a particular lek tended to be more closely related to each other than those in other leks.
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Closely related to this will be an opening up of learning and probably a really significant change in terms of how high value information I shared across network more effectively.
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Wall Street may well be right to see the two facts as closely related.
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