It was drilled closer to a location called the ice divide, where stresses would have been lower, they say.
他们说，钻探的地点更靠近一个叫做冰分水岭的地方，那里的压力会更低。
Randy, appeared to be reading quietly in the room, but closer examination that he was eating apple jam straight from the bottle with his hands.
兰迪似乎在房间里静静地看书，但仔细一看，他正用手直接从瓶子里拿苹果酱吃。
As Venus was closer to the Earth, its parallax angle would be larger, and Halley worked out that by using Venus it would be possible to measure the Suns distance to 1 part in 500.
由于金星离地球更近，所以它的视差角会更大。哈雷计算出，利用金星可以测量出太阳与地球之间的距离，误差为五百分之一。
He was one step closer to his dream.
他离自己的梦想又近了一步。
While she was cutting his greying hair, he told her about moving closer to his adult children.
当她帮他修剪白发时，他说他要搬到离成年子女更近的地方。
I got closer and smiled to let her know that I was there to talk, to help.
我走近她，朝她微笑着，让她知道需要聊天和帮忙的时候我都在。
She was looking for a nanny position closer to her home and was willing to start almost immediately at half pay, while I found a second family.
她正在找一个离家近一点的保姆工作，而且愿意以半薪马上开始工作，而我找到了愿意分享保姆的另外一个家庭。
Once I started writing this way, and trusting the process, I wrote much faster, and was producing higher-quality copy that was closer to my natural, and more powerful, speaking voice.
一旦我开始这样写，并且信任这个程序，我写得就快得多，而且会产生更高质量的稿子，它更加接近我的自然的，更强壮的语言习惯。
Even with that margin of error, DeSilva says, it was clear that the birth weight of Australopithecus infants was much closer to the 6 percent of modern humans than the 3 percent of apes.
德西尔瓦说，即使存在着一定幅度的误差，结果还是很明显，南猿幼儿的出生重量更接近于现代人类，即占母体重量的6%，而不是类人猿的3%。
Even when he was wrong it forced people to find out what was closer to the truth.
甚至是当他出错的时候，他的错误理论也鞭策人们去寻找更加接近真相的理论。
One of Tevez's main reasons for wanting to leave was to be closer to his family in Argentina, but Mancini hopes that problem has now been solved.
特维斯想离开的主要原因之一是想前往阿根廷，从而更接近他的家人，但曼奇尼认为这个问题现在已经解决。
He said the Airbus A330 was probably closer to Brazil than to Africa when it crashed.
他说空客A330坠毁地点可能在巴西和非洲间之间(更)靠近巴西处。
In Bush's time the science that went into computing was itself closer to basic research.
在布什的时代，这一计算的科学本身就和基础研究联系紧密。
When I reached the Mississippi River at its source in northern Minnesota, a grocery clerk made sure to inform me that I was closer to the finish than the start.
当我到达密西西比河位于北明尼苏达州的源头的时候，当时一个食杂店的店员很肯定的告诉我，说比起出发点，现在的位置离终点更近一些。
He said my cellphone copying bore some resemblance to that earlier behavior, but because it depended on the portability and ubiquity of the phone's camera, he said it was closer to music piracy.
他告诉我，我用手机偷拍的行为和早期的盗版行为有一些共同点，但是由于拍照手机的方便携带、无处不在，它更像音乐盗版。
What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had always loved them.
真正让玛德琳在床上坐起来的原因，正是她当初之所以读书，并始终爱书的最根本原因。
These features led the paleontologists to conclude that the animal was closer to living placentals on the mammalian family tree than to pouched marsupials, such as kangaroos.
这些部分的特征让古生物学家得以作出这样的结论：这种动物在哺乳动物谱系中，与有胎盘类的关系较与有袋类(如袋鼠)的关系更接近。
To test this idea, the team studied the DNA of pairs of closely related plant species in which one member of the pair was tropical and the other was found closer to the poles.
为了验证这个想法，科研小组们研究了几对植物的DNA，每一对均由亲缘关系很近的两种植物组成。 而且，其中的一种植物属于热带植物，另一种则属于靠近极地生长的寒带植物。
That kind of initiative was impossible closer to headquarters where supervision was tighter and bureaucratic rules were enforced.
这种策略在总部那边是行不通的，因为总部的监管更加严格，一切都得按章程办事。
Given this change, I felt it was better to wait until something closer to the final JAXB code was available before writing the follow-up, and I'm happy to finally be able to do so now!
由于这方面的变化，所以我想，为了更贴近最终的JAXB代码，最好先不写这篇后续文章，现在，我很高兴，终于可以写这篇文章了！
The Hanna who could cry was closer to me than the Hanna who was only strong.
对我来说，会哭的汉娜比只会强硬的汉娜更亲近。
Previously the ratio of negotiated business to non negotiated business was 65% to 35%; now it's closer to 50% to 50%.
以往，协议业务和非协议类业务的比例是65%：35%，但现在已经变为接近50%：50%。
Yet only a day later, attention was diverted by events closer to home.
然而仅仅一天以后，公众的视线就被转移到了离家门口更近的另一个事件上。
The language of the communique, however, was closer to the Americans' position.
公报的语言更靠近美国人的位置。
He let those problems happen, and every one of those persons was drawn closer to God as a result.
但他让这些苦难发生，结果这些人都因而更亲近神。
Mr Cheney's own expedition was a lot closer to "Gosford Park" than "the Deer Hunter" -a group of fat old toffs waiting for wildlife to be flushed towards them at huge expense.
切尼先生看上去更像是“高斯·福特公园族”而不是“猎鹿一族”。所谓高斯·福特公园族是指一群上了年纪的、大腹便便的纨绔子弟，悠然自得地等着出高价雇来的人将猎物赶进他们的射程。
Of the two teahouses taken by Hideyoshi to the great outdoor ceremony at Kitano, there is no doubt as to which was closer to Rikyu's ideals.
丰臣秀吉带到北野户外举行仪式的两个茶馆无疑是利休理想的茶馆。
Of the two teahouses taken by Hideyoshi to the great outdoor ceremony at Kitano, there is no doubt as to which was closer to Rikyu's ideals.
丰臣秀吉带到北野户外举行仪式的两个茶馆无疑是利休理想的茶馆。
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