With further melting, refreezing, and increased weight from newer snowfall above, the snow reaches a granular recrystallized stage intermediate between flakes and ice known as firn.

随着进一步的融化、再结冰，以及上方新的降雪增加的重量，这些雪变成再次结晶阶段的颗粒状中间物，介于小薄片与冰块之间，被称作万年雪。

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Although de Ricqlès urged caution, arguing for an intermediate type of dinosaur physiology, a generation of paleontologists has come to believe that dinosaur bone is mammalian like.

尽管 de Ricqlès 极力主张谨慎对待，主张恐龙生理学的一种中间类型，但这一代古生物学家已经开始相信恐龙骨骼与哺乳动物相似。

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It's a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service at the same time.

这是一个复杂的系统，数据被复制到多个中间设备，通常是为了在数百万人同时试图访问服务时加快文件访问速度。

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Buchanan Renewables President Joel Strickland says it is a low-cost, intermediate solution to Liberia's energy needs, while repairs to the Mt.Coffee hydroelectric facility are at least five years away.

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In a compiled language, you have an intermediate step, in which you take the source code, it runs through what's called a checker or a compiler or both, and it creates what's called object code.

而在编译语言里，你就会经过一个中间的步骤，在这种语言里输入源码后，先经过过滤器,或者编译器检查后，它会创建一个叫做目标代码的东西。

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And what it's used is to convert one type of group, what's called a carboxylic acid into another type of very reactive intermediate, which is called an acid chloride.

它被用来将一类被称作羧酸的化合物，转化成另外一类活性很高的反应中间体,也就是酰氯。

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But on Friday, the panel said it also would study reusing a Newtown intermediate school or moving Sandy Hook Elementary to a former mental hospital campus that now includes a municipal town center and a youth academy.

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"We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail -- neither long nor short -- but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms, " he said.

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The idea of storing energy from a spring in an intermediate electrical form was taken a stage further in Freeplay's clockwork torch.

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