One of the showiest stunts that some languages can pull off is an ability to build up words of breath-breaking length, and thus express in one word what English takes a whole sentence to say.
有一些语言最令人叹为观止的特色之一，是能够创造出某些长得无法一口气读完的单词，由此用一个单词就能表达英语需要用一整个句子才能说出来的意思。
The length of the war is one of the biggest unknowns.
战争的持续时间是其中一个最大的未知数。
One of them unwound a length of rope from around his waist.
他们中的一个人解开绕在他腰间的一条绳子。
Lectures, seminars and tutorials are all one hour in length, whilst laboratory classes usually last either 2 or 3 hours.
讲座、研讨会和辅导课都是一个小时，而实验课通常持续2到3个小时。
About nine metres of the boat's length was recovered; one end lay beyond the excavation and had to be left.
找到了大约九米长的船身，其一端所在的地方超出挖掘范围，必须留在原地。
That one word can turn into a full-length video in her head.
这个词在她脑子里可以变成一段完整的视频。
One thing relativity tells us about is length contractions.
相对论告诉我们的一件事是长度的收缩。
Overlap sheets of newspaper by about one third of their length and roll them into a tube.
将报纸一片一片重叠起来，折叠成它们原有长度的三分之一，将它们卷成管状。
Next they had to decide on a "natural" length. They chose one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole.
接下来他们必须决定一种“自然的”长度，他们选择了从赤道到北极距离的一千万分之一，他们将它称作一米。
And as to whether the ideal MBA should be one or two years in length?
那么理想的MBA课程时间长度应该是一年还是两年？
A real fish can swim up to ten body lengths a second. The robot version clocks just one body length a second.
一条真鱼可以一秒钟游过十个身长的距离，而这种机器人还只能一秒钟游过一个身长。
I choose the one I believe will best match the length of my flight.
我会挑那本正好符合我航班飞行时间长度的书。
But if the home team is behind by one goal, the length of time added is 35% above average, whereas if it is ahead by one goal, added time is 29% below average.
但如果主队落后一球，补时长度会比平均补时增加35%，但如果主队领先一球，补时是平均补时的29%。
Whichever length one plumps for, however, a boat 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high is undeniably immense.
然而，不管你取该范围中的哪个长度，都无法否认一艘300腕尺长，50腕尺宽，30腕尺高的船是相当大的。
With that said, all one length is the safest way to go if you have no idea what you want, but you are unlikely to reach your hair's full potential that way.
如果你不清楚自己想要的发型，剪齐是最安全的，不过你的头发可能无法剪到同一个长度。
You'll use these arrows later in "tracing back" to construct an actual LCS (as opposed to just discovering the length of one).
后面的“回溯”一节将用这些箭头建立实际的LCS(与仅仅发现LCS长度相反)。
As the temperature drops, one metal changes its length more than the other one - resulting in a "curl" in the fiber.
当温度下降的时候，其中一根金属丝的长度发生改变——引起纤维蜷缩。
The Bob looks very different on each side of the head, with a drastic difference in length from one side to the other.
由于两边的长度反差强，从不同侧面看到的是不同的波波发型。
Stab, which contains an array of fixed length structures, one structure per stab, and.
包含一组具有固定长度的结构，每个stab包含一个结构。
Complex maximum matching: Pick the first word from the chunk with maximum length. If there are more than one chunks with maximum length, apply the next rule.
复杂最大匹配：从chunk中以最大长度取第一个单词，如果有多于一个chunk最大长度，应用下一个规则。
That means a vector that is at every point of the curve perpendicular to the curve and has length one.
也就是，曲线每一点上,垂直于曲线，模长为1的向量。
The resume must only be one page in length.
简历只需要1页的长度足矣。
Even if such specialized code is generated for one particular length, however, the generated code must also correctly perform copies for other lengths.
但是，即使此类专门的代码是为某个特定的长度生成的，生成的代码也必须正确地执行其他长度的复制。
We're following an iterative development process - and found out that a length of one week seems to work best for us.
我们一直遵循一个循环的开发流程，并发现以一周为循环周期对我们来说最适用。
Conservationists say the money was worth spending even if after 23 years of construction it will only take one hour off the length of a journey.
环保人士指出，虽然付出了23年多的时间代价，换回的仅是一个小时的旅程缩短，但这笔钱还是花得物有所值。
Some women think that if they keep their hair all one length the way it was in high school, everyone will think they're still in high school.
有些女人觉得，如果她们保持和高中时一样长度的头发，别人就会认为她们还是高中学生。
When in a discussion, men are likely to debate and talk about a range of topics while the ladies may talk at length about one topic.
在一个讨论中，男性可能就广泛的主题进行辩论，女士们则可能就一个话题细致品味。
The Saturn hexagon seems to represent the strange rigid path of a jet stream, with each of the six sides being one Earth diameter in length.
土星上的六角形云团像是激流形成的固定图案，每条边的长度与地球的直径相当。
The Saturn hexagon seems to represent the strange rigid path of a jet stream, with each of the six sides being one Earth diameter in length.
土星上的六角形云团像是激流形成的固定图案，每条边的长度与地球的直径相当。
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