The worms - from the species Caenorhabditis elegans - are 1mm long, with just a thousand cells in their transparent bodies.
这种蠕虫，属于秀丽隐杆线虫类，身长为1毫米，其透明的身体只有一千个细胞。
AT the moment it is just a thousand hectares of mud on the outskirts of Monterrey, a bustling industrial city in northern Mexico.
蒙特雷是墨西哥北部一个繁华的工业城市，而现在它的郊区还只是一片一千公顷的泥地。
The planet was practically covered in ice just a few thousand years ago.
几千年前，地球几乎全部被冰覆盖。
We would have probably gone ahead with this, maybe just getting a thousand iPhones and giving them out.
我们可能会继续这样做，也许只是买一千台苹果手机，然后分发出去。
You might get just a little bit tired out after the first few thousand kilometers, especially with all the oxygen tanks you'll have to be hauling up with you.
在爬完刚开始几千公里后，你可能会觉得有点累，特别是你还要带一大堆氧气罐一起爬上去。
The human population contains a great variety of genetic variation, but drugs are tested on just a few thousand people.
人类群体中有各种各样的基因变异，但是药物只在几千人身上进行测试。
Even more impressive is the progress in just a single year: human interventions fell from 0.8 times per thousand miles to 0.2, which translates into a 400% improvement.
更令人印象深刻的是仅仅在一年内的进步：人为干预从每千英里的0.8倍下降到0.2倍，这意味着改善了400％。
Each picture, just like the central picture, is also worth a thousand words.
每一张图片，就像中间的图片一样，也胜过千言万语。
But in just a tiny sliver of its history - the last few thousand years - the patterns of vegetation altered much faster than before.
但是，在某一小段时间历史时期内——即过去的几千年——植被分布的变化比以前要快得多。
Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that the number of smartphone subscribers in South Korea had passed 10 million, up from just a few hundred thousand in 2009.
今年稍早的时候，《华尔街邮报》报道韩国智能手机用户已经超过1000万，在2009年这个数字只有几十万。
The thought of a planet a thousand years from now where everyone speaks just a few languages, or just one, depresses me.
想到这个星球在从现在起一千年前，每个人才说着少数几种语言，或者仅仅一种，让我沮丧。
As a result, the JDO community is still very small, with the largest and most well-respected JDO portal boasting a membership of just over five thousand.
其结果是，jdo社区还非常小，最大且最具威望的jdo门户网站可以炫耀的也只是其会员有五千多一点。
Watchful waiting costs just a few thousand dollars, in follow-up doctor visits and tests.
在后续的医生访问和检验中，观察等待成本只有几千美元。
The unusual fear affects just a few thousand people in Britain and treatments for the condition include "psychological re-programming" to control the anxious response to seeing vegetables.
这种不寻常的恐惧只影响到英国的几千人，对这种病的治疗包括“心理重构”，控制自己看见蔬菜的焦虑反应。
Located on the eastern shore of Taihu Lake, just 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Suzhou City, Tongli town is 63 square kilometers (24 square miles) in area and has a population of over 33 thousand.
坐落在东部海岸的太湖之滨，距离苏州市区只有18公里(11英里)。同里面积63(24平方英里)平方公里，人口超过33万。
They are rare and form within just a few hundred thousand years, so it's unlikely that astronomers will spot one that is condensing and close enough to observe.
它们很稀有并只在几十万年内形成，所以天文学家很没可能发现一颗正在浓缩且又非常近可以观察的恒星。
Though they seem to creep along at impossibly slow speeds, in geologic time glaciers are relatively fast, powerful landscape artists that can carve out valleys and fjords in just a few thousand years.
尽管它们的变化速度似乎缓慢的不可思议，但相对于地质时期来说，冰川是个快速、强大的雕刻艺术家，仅在数千年时间内就雕刻出了大量的山谷和峡湾。
In fact, I have just bought a book entitled How to Read a Thousand Words a Minute.
事实上，我刚买来一本叫《一分钟读一千字的诀窍》的书。
Now I am a dedicated bike commuter, with over a thousand miles just commuting under my belt since April.
如今我早已是一个典型的自行车上班族，从四月份开始我每天骑行上千英里路上班。
Just a few days ago I had arrived. Nightfall. People scurrying Home like rats under the foggy lights. The trees glittering with diamond pointed malice. I thought it all out, a thousand times or more.
几天前我才到了这儿，当时夜幕刚降下，人们在朦胧的灯光下像老鼠一样匆匆赶回家去，树木带着宝石尖般的恶意闪闪发光，我不止一千次地想起了这一切。
Just how many Iraqis would die if the U.S. withdrew is anyone's guess, but almost everyone who has studied it believes the current rate of more than a thousand a month would spike dramatically.
美军撤退到底有多少伊拉克人死掉各人的预测不同，但是每一个做过研究的人都相信，目前每个月超过一千人的死亡率将会大幅攀升。
On a Thursday night I'm the only customer, and the bartender, a woman named Casey, tells me that she just bought a three-bedroom house in Nucla for fifty-three thousand dollars.
某个周四的晚上，酒吧里就我一个客人，女酒保凯西告诉我，她刚在纽克拉花五万三千美元买了一座三居的房子。
The horse won by a nose and my friend came back with the two thousand bucks he'd just won, looking like the cat that ate the canary.
那匹马跑得快了一点点就赢了。我那朋友拿了他刚赢的二千块美元回来，非常得意。
Said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys."
狐狸说：“对我来说，你还只是一个小男孩，就像其他千万个小男孩一样。”
To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys.
对我来说，你仍然不过是个小男孩，跟其他成千上万的小男孩一样。
When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
什么时候你的父母还会一年花几千块供你去一个陌生的地方天天晚上喝醉。
As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and this is just where the trouble begins.
就像有句话说的，一幅画胜过千言万语，而这正是问题的起源。
But the information that Reid described is just the tip of the iceberg. We are already gathering a thousand times more data than that.
但Reid所描述的信息量只是冰山的一角，我们已经收集到的数据量已经超出这些一千倍都不止。
But the information that Reid described is just the tip of the iceberg. We are already gathering a thousand times more data than that.
但Reid所描述的信息量只是冰山的一角，我们已经收集到的数据量已经超出这些一千倍都不止。
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