The largest object ever put into space -- the International Space Station -- could not have been built without the shuttle program.

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And what I referring to wasn't just the caboose but the whole long extended-through-space object.

我指的不仅仅是车尾,而是整个长长的,贯穿空间的物体。

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This long extended-through-space object.

这辆长长的，贯穿空间的火车。

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So I would help myself to this language of space-time worm object that extends not only over space but also over time, and distinguish the entire worm from the various slices or stages that either make up the worm or we could slice the worm into.

然后我借助时间虫这个词,这是描写物体,贯穿时间和空间的词语，并区分出整条虫,和不同的部分,这些部分是组成虫，或者虫可以切分成的。

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