Instead, computers would dispatch intelligent agents, or software messengers, to explore Web sites by the thousands and logically sift out just what's relevant.

取而代之的是，计算机将派出智能代理或软件信使，对成千上万的网站进行搜索，然后逻辑地筛选出相关的内容。

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Upon reaching the coast, the lemmings do not stop but swim by the thousands into the surf.

一旦到达海岸，旅鼠不会停下来，而是成千上万地游进海浪中。

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The inhabitants turned to wild cereal grasses instead, collecting them by the thousands, while the percentage of nuts in the diet fell.

居民们转而采集大量野生谷物类牧草，而坚果在饮食中所占的比例下降了。

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He said the slaves of the South would escape by the thousands to freedom in the North.

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You konw, the earth is gonna be burnt up by the sun one of these thousands of years.

在未来几千年中的某一年,地球会被太阳燃成灰烬。

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Bankers came by the thousands to win favorable legislation.

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It is true that blue-collar, unionized, metal-bending shops that employed workers by the thousands are gone.

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And as the years go on, employees and new customers will come by the thousands.

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It has been turned into sculpture and has sold by the thousands as a poster.

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