Surveyors marched inland from the coast for thousands of miles, stopping at increments of as little as a few feet to measure their elevation, and marking each increment with two poles.
测量员从海岸向内陆行进数千英里，每增加几英尺就停下来测量海拔，每增加一英尺就用两根杆子做标记。
Once ingested by a caterpillar, the protein globule dissolves, releasing thousands of viruses, or virions, that after about two weeks multiply enough to fill the entire body cavity.
一旦被毛虫摄入，蛋白质小球就会溶解，释放出数以千计的病毒或病毒粒子，大约两周后这些病毒就会大量繁殖，足以填满整个体腔。
When 28% of English children aged two to 15 are obese, a national shift on the scale achieved by Leeds would lengthen hundreds of thousands of lives.
英国2至15岁儿童中有28%患有肥胖症，利兹市所实现的全国性转变将延长数十万人的寿命。
Thousands of people were evacuated from the main railway station, two opera houses and several skyscrapers.
数千人从主火车站、两座歌剧院和几座摩天大楼撤离。
Bailyn's third proposition suggests two general patterns prevailing among the many thousands of migrants: one group came as indentured servants, another came to acquire land.
贝林的第三个主张提出了在成千上万的移民中普遍存在的两种模式：一种是契约仆役，另一种是为了获得土地。
After two years of hard work, the group paid for the solar panels, which now satisfy one-fourth of the school's electricity needs—saving the neighborhood thousands of dollars.
经过两年的努力，该组织购买了太阳能电池板，现在满足了学校四分之一的电力需求，为社区节省了数千美元。
Two of the biggest automakers in the United States plan to close thousands of dealerships nationwide to cut costs.
美国最大汽车厂商中的其中两家计划在全美关闭数千个经销网点以削减成本。
The youngest victims were two boys, aged 14, who were laid to rest alongside thousands of bodies already in the graveyard.
最小的受害者是两名14岁的男孩，他俩的遗体与这个坟地内数千具遗骨安放在一起。
Imagine thousands of desktop PCs running applications with one or two connections to the database.
想像一下这种情况：几千台运行应用程序的桌面电脑共用一两个到数据库的连接。
By following these rules, Gerry and I have saved thousands of dollars in car-related costs over the past two decades.
由于恪守这些法则，在过去二十年里，格里和我在汽车相关的成本上节省了数千美元。
The problem with social networks is that there are only one or two [that are popular now], not thousands.
社交网络的问题在于，真正流行的服务只有一两个，而不是数千个。
Only two countries on Earth possess thousands of nuclear warheads: the United States and Russia.
世界上拥有数千枚核弹头的国家只有两个：美国和俄罗斯。
My eldest two won't let me near them, though I'm sure I could easily hang around unnoticed among the thousands of friends they have somehow collected.
可是，年长的两个儿子不肯让我接近他们，尽管我可以不声不响地隐藏在他们那数千位不知道哪里来的朋友当中。
Thousands of people attended the funerals of the two Israeli soldiers.
成千上万人参加了两名以色列军人的葬礼。
In 2008, researchers studied thousands of toads emerging from ponds lined with cat food and found that 98% were attacked by the ants within two minutes.
在2008年，研究者们发现，上千的蟾蜍在那些岸边放有猫粮的池塘浮出来，并且98%的蟾蜍在两分钟内被这些蚂蚁攻击。
Photographs taken when the ships landed show thousands of people meeting the two ships.
这两艘船靠岸时所拍下的照片显示，有无数的人在迎接这两艘船。
The number of Africans living in China has exploded from hardly any two decades ago to tens of thousands today.
住在中国的非洲人的数量已经从二十年前的几乎没几个人，爆炸式地增长到了现在的数以万计。
Two thousands six hundred years ago, a man named Siddhartha lived near the village.
两千六百年前，一个叫悉达多的人住在这个村庄附近。
The deal allows GM to hire thousands of new "tier two" employees, who will get about half the pay of longer-serving blue-collar workers for the same work.
该协议允许通用汽车公司雇佣上千名新的“二线”员工，这些员工得到的薪酬大约是同等工作的长期蓝领员工的一半。
However, many thousands remained in Tripoli which, until this week, was far from the fighting and is a two-hour drive from the Tunisian border.
不过，依然有数千人留在的黎波里。在本周以前，的黎波里一直远离战火，距离突尼斯边境只有两个小时车程。
For two days, thousands of people lined up to get access to the only medical tent and its malaria medication.
整整两天，上千人排队以便进入唯一的医疗帐篷并获取疟疾药物。
Physics and chemistry, to cite two other Nobel categories, may be built upon the shoulders of a few giants, but microfinance needs-and has-thousands of them.
譬如物理和化学这两门诺贝尔奖项，也许可以构建在一些巨人的肩上，但是小额信贷则需要(也已经拥有了)成千上万。
That is no longer the case. The number of people killed in such incidents has declined from many thousands a month to a few hundred in the past two years.
这不再是个案，那些由于突发事故死亡的人数在过去两年已经从一个月数千人下降到几百人。
The third largest extinction in Earth's history, the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction had two peak dying times separated by hundreds of thousands of years.
作为地球史上消亡物种排行第三的大灭绝，奥陶系-志留纪大灭绝有两个死亡高峰期，其中相隔数十万年时间。
Thousands of passengers have been stranded at the Wanzhou railway station. After urgent repairs, two railways have resumed operation.
成千上万名旅客被困在万州火车站。紧急抢修后，两条铁路已重新恢复运行。
In the past two decades, Jews have called it the City of David, a part of what thousands of years ago was the ancient Jewish capital.
过去二十年来，犹太人将这里叫作大卫城，那是几千年前古代犹太人首都的一部分。
But the police still have to contact thousands of people on Mr Mulcaire's list, and it is not hard to imagine the possibility that they could be speaking to an American or two.
但警方仍然得与穆尔凯尔名单上的数千人联系，不难想象他们之中也许会有人与一两个美国人通过话。
As spicules measuring in the tens of thousands of degrees kelvins rise from the chromosphere, the researchers noticed, patches of the corona above flare up at one million to two million degrees.
研究人员注意到，从色球层产生的日珥能达到上万度，日冕上的某些部分甚至能达到一百万至两百万度。
As spicules measuring in the tens of thousands of degrees kelvins rise from the chromosphere, the researchers noticed, patches of the corona above flare up at one million to two million degrees.
研究人员注意到，从色球层产生的日珥能达到上万度，日冕上的某些部分甚至能达到一百万至两百万度。
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