It is the largest single-span concrete arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

So one of the reasons there is a huge increase in life span is because people aren't dying of things that they would have in prior years.

寿命范围显著增长的一个原因是,人们不再死于,以前那些致死的东西

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I've made a lot of really good friends in a really short time span.

在很短的一段时间里，我就交了很多好朋友。

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They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

The expected life spans increased dramatically in the last couple of hundred years until now, for people that were born when you were born you can expect to live to be 80 years old, a doubling in life span, fairly dramatic.

从几百年前到现在,预期寿命显著增长了,你们同期出生的那批人,能够活到八十岁,预期寿命增长了一倍,令人印象深刻

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Here in the U.S., the rate of obesity doubled over a span of 16 years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Because these molecules can span across the membrane from outside to inside, they're in just the right position to take messages that they receive from outside the cell and transmit them through the membrane into the cells internal apparatus, and that's what they do.

因为这些分子能穿过细胞膜,连通细胞内外,它们所在的位置非常适于接受信息,它们能将外界获得的信息,通过细胞膜传递给细胞器,这正是它们的功能

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They are RNA molecules but they have at some points in their life span, they have amino acids attached to them.

这些是如假包换的RNA分子,但在其生命周期的特定时间,它们会携带一个氨基酸分子

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