We'd shared so much over the years, like rings on a tree.

我们这些年来分享得太多了，就像树的年轮一样。

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The reeds had greyish-purple tassels, soft and smooth like rings of shining silk thread.

芦花才吐新穗。 紫灰色的芦穗，发着银光，软软的，滑溜溜的，像一串丝线。

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Many people believe that foods shaped like rings or that are round in form embody the year being properly completed.

许多人认为，食品的形状像戒指，或者是圆的形式可以体现今年可以顺利结束。

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Thin rings show the tree is barely getting along, like during a drought year.

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They were structurally similar to cytisine in many ways, sharing the location of a nitrogen atom in a particular place on a pair of bicycle-like carbon rings.

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Chinese officials have said that money-smuggling rings like the one in Chongqing have become a "popular" channel for speculative capital flows.

WSJ: Chongqing Court Convicts 18 of Running $10 Billion Money-Smuggling Ring in China

The same team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings.

BBC: Atomic bond types discernible in single-molecule images