It's funny people making a few thousands of yuan a month worry about the livelihood of those making hundred times more.

月薪只有几千元的人去担忧那些收入超过他们几百倍的人的生活，这很滑稽。

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The first POTS known from the Middle East and North Africa were made a few thousand years after the earliest Jomon POTS, and in the Americas it was a few thousands of years after that.

比最早期绳纹盆晚了几千年，在中东与北非出现了当地第一批陶器，而在美洲，那是还要再晚几千年的事。

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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。

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It is exciting to stand only a few meters away and watch scientists clean the asphalt off a fossil that is thousands of years old.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

"It is a plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years, and some eight hundred permanent jobs well paying permanent jobs in the years to come."

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Just east of the Olympic flame, there is a library that few of the thousands of sports fans in Vancouver will ever visit.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

But in a country driven by chronic poverty, illiteracy and greed, a few thousands dollars are enough to push some to take the extreme step.

BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan's kidney donor crisis

And that is only a few of thousands of sources we could use.

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Given that Foxconn has always paid better than competing Chinese factories, it looks rather like just keeping up with the Joneses rather than responding to the outrage and fury of a few hipsters thousands of miles away.

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