It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth.

好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小。

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But such transits have paved the way for what might prove to be one of the most vital breakthroughs in the cosmos—detecting Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.

但是这样的凌日现象已经为被证明可能是宇宙中最重要的突破之一的说法铺平了道路，这个说法即找到那些围绕其他恒星轨道公转的和地球大小相似的行星。

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On Earth, among the surest indications of sunspot cycles are believed to be the rate that trees grow, as seen in the rings visible in the cross sections of their trunks.

在地球上，人们认为，表明太阳黑子周期最可靠的迹象之一是树木的生长速度，就像树干横截面上可见的年轮一样。

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Susan Bass says that this year's Earth Day will be a busy one in the United States.

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The great Achilles, respected still in the afterworld would immediately turn it in to be a complete nobody on earth.

伟大的阿基里斯,死后在下界都受到尊敬的人物,都情愿立刻成为世间的一个无名小卒

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It begins--this will be news to most of you in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and it.

它是以-- 这对你们大多数人来说是新鲜的,一开始,上帝创造了天堂和人间

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According to a new computer model, liquid methane in contact with a partially hydrogen-terminated diamond surface at extremely high pressures and temperatures spontaneously forms longer hydrocarbons, and hence the material of crude oil could be formed deep in the earth.

FORBES: Deep Oil From Diamonds? Maybe, Says A New Report

But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure.

FORBES: And We Will Bend It to the Hopes of Man

The most compelling case for asteroid mining is for a yet-undesired element that turns out to be not abundant in the earth's crust and becomes suddenly valuable because of some future technological advance.

WSJ: Exhausting the Earth's Resources? Not So Fast