In a separate incident, on Monday pirates opened fire on a Hong-Kong registered ship some 1,000 nautical miles off Somalia's coast.

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We don't usually do our chemistry calculations in miles per hour, so let's switch that to 42 meters per second, so it's -- sorry, it's 94 miles per hour.

在化学计算中我们很少,用英里每小时，所以我们把它换算为42米每秒，对不起，它是94英里每小时。

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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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