When breaking in an engine, you should refrain from high speeds for the first thousand miles.

磨合发动机时,你应当避免在最初的1千英里高速行驶。

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Mush Valley is only about 160 kilometers northeast of the modern capital city, Addis Ababa, but it feels as though it could be a thousand miles away.

Mush Valley 距现代化的首都亚的斯亚贝巴东北方向只有160公里，但它给人的感觉有上千英里远。

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Even more impressive is the progress in just a single year: human interventions fell from 0.8 times per thousand miles to 0.2, which translates into a 400% improvement.

更令人印象深刻的是仅仅在一年内的进步：人为干预从每千英里的0.8倍下降到0.2倍，这意味着改善了400％。

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The anger of the sea was no more to them than it was to a group of chickens a thousand miles away on land.

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It's a small city. It's only 49 square miles, seven hundred thousand people.

这城市不大。只有49平方英里，70万人口。

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Shaped like a spinning top, it moves at more than thirteen thousand miles an hour.

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Chinese domestic phone firms are thousand miles apart from Apple in terms of technology.

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You would then have to travel the second thousand miles instantly to overcome your slow start.

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