The plane had ploughed a path through a patch of forest before coming to rest in a field.

该飞机从一小块森林中间犁出一条小径，而后停在一片旷野上。

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Although most of their scales have been lost, tunas and mackerels retain a patch of coarse scales near the head called the corselet.

虽然它们的大部分鳞片已经消失，但金枪鱼和鲭鱼头部附近仍保留着一块粗糙的鳞片，称为胸甲。

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The osphradium is a patch of sensory cell.

嗅检器是感觉细胞的一个小块。

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There are no gravestones or grand mausoleums - just a patch of bare grass surrounded by a simple wooden fence.

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This is a picture of patch clamp, it's a device that engineers built to fasten onto individual cells in order to look at how molecules in the membrane of the cell are working, and I'll talk a little bit about that as we go along.

这是膜片钳的图片,工程师使用该装置固定单个细胞,由此观察,细胞膜中的分子怎样活动,在以后的课中我还会谈到这方面内容

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The military says heavy clashes are taking place as troops advance toward a 30-square-kilometer patch of jungle in which the Tamil Tigers are cornered.

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There was a patch of underscoring that wasn't landing and they wanted to fix it.

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Back in England, farmers used to bring their animals to graze on a patch of grass.

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Now it had to home in on a patch of ground four miles wide by twelve miles long.

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