She told the agency's Executive Board on Monday that the level of action should not be governed by the size of a problem.

VOA: special.2011.01.19

This lets me have a way of representing things that could be arbitrary in size. And some of these things could be huge, if they're themselves lists.

有些可能很大，如,果他们本身就是列表,那问题来了。

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Here's where it comes. " The result of the discussion of these questions seems to be a general acknowledgment of the inadequacy of classical electrodynamics in describing the behavior of systems of atomic size."

这就是他来的地方“,这些问题讨论的结果,似乎变成了一种普通的知识,经典电动力学,不能描述原子尺度的系统行为“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It will be huge -- about the size of a passenger jet.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

If we think of the size of a typical atom, we would say that would be about 10 to the negative 10 meters. So, we can see the diameter of a nucleus is absolutely smaller really concentrating that mass into a very small space.

一个普通细胞的大小，抱歉，我和细胞核搞混了0,如果我们考虑，一个普通原子的大小,这大概是10的负十次方米,所以原子核的直径确实非常小,真的是把质量。

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In a country the size of western Europe, we can't be everywhere at the same time, and the hotline allows them to call in no matter where they are and to ask usthe information that we can provide -- even if we're not necessarily able to provide the services directly."

VOA: special.2010.05.03

For example, a portion of pasta according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture would be about the amount of pasta that would be the size of a tennis ball.

比如说,意大利面的每日摄入量,根据美国农业部,是如此的份量,大概和网球一样大小

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The remains of old rockets can be the size of a bus, while other fragments are simply tiny flecks of paint.

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

b OK. In this example I'd use b. All right, as b get-- b is the thing that's changing as I go along here, but it could be things like, how many elements are there in a list if the input is a list, could be how many digits are there in a string if the input's a string, it could be the size of the integer as we go along. All right.?

好，在这个例子里我会用，因为b是一直在变的东西,但是也可能是如下情况：,如果输入是数组的话,变化的就是数组的元素数，如果输入是字符串的话,变化的就是字符串的长度，如果是integer的话,可能就是这个数的大小，对不对？

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The White House says that among the issues the president will discuss with BP officials will be the size of the fund, which would be administered by a third party.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Now if you lived in a culture where the only meat that got served was the size of a deck of cards, and the only pasta that got served was the size of a tennis ball, there wouldn't be such problems, but that's not the case.

如果我们生活在一个,肉类每日摄入量是一副牌大小,或者意大利面只有网球大小的环境中,问题就不会存在,可惜这不是现实

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Cereal would be--a serving of cereal would be about the amount that would fit in a wine glass, but people think that you fill up a bowl and that becomes a serving, but a typical amount of cereal that people serve themselves might be two or three times what the ordinary size is.

这是一餐份量的麦片,放在酒杯里大概那么多,但人们认为满满一碗才是一份,人们通常所食用的麦片,是原来大小的二到三倍

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