Large flakes of snow began swiftly to fall.

大片大片的雪花开始飞快地落下。

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Scientists have dated sharp-edged flakes of stone found in the fine-grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago.

科学家们已经确定，在埃塞俄比亚阿法尔地区干燥河床的细颗粒沉积物中发现的具有锋利边缘的石片存在于252万至260万年前。

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Watching extra large flakes of snow sluggishly fall to the ground is really quite neat.

看着超大的雪花慢慢地飘落地上，真是赏心的事情。

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I talk about some of the history of snow flakes and people who have photographed them and studied them before.

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Let's just say it's the Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and three quarters of a cup is about how much you had, and so these serving sizes are listed here.

假设这里就是家乐氏香甜玉米片,你大概吃了四分之三杯,这里同时列出了每份的量

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The morning customers want viscous shakes that will last their whole commute, perhaps with flakes of fruit to keep them entertained.

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In the yard behind the outbuildings, the fodder stack was a smoking pile, flakes of black ash blowing off in the breeze.

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Christopher Cassidy and Thomas Marshburn installed the new pump after removing the old one suspected of spewing flakes of frozen ammonia coolant two days earlier.

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