To represent that chain of events, a long line of oversized, brightly painted dominoes has been set up running for one-and-a-half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

John Locke accounted for the rise of private property from the state of nature by a chain of reasoning very similar to the one that Nozick and the libertarians use.

洛克从自然状态角度,解释了私有财产的兴起,他的推理思路,和诺齐克等自由主义者的思路相似。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And then linked to the glycerol instead of a third fatty acid chain is a water soluble molecule, like a salt.

但连到甘油上的第三个基团不是脂肪酸链,而是一种水溶性的分子,像盐一样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"Exclusion is at the end of a complicated chain that often begins with poverty and the lack of education, involves the criminal justice system, the penal institution and often ends in isolation, bitterness and disfranchisement."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25