The road was a ribbon of moonlight.

这条路在月光下如同一条缎带。

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While Egypt's arable land constitutes only 3 percent of the country, a ribbon of land along the Nile is lush with crops. Egypt is the world's leading producer of long-staple cotton.

虽然埃及耕地只占到该国领土的3%，但尼罗河沿岸地区还是庄稼茂盛，而且埃及还是世界上长绒棉的主要出口国。

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In the third mile-maybe it was the exertion, could have been the rhythm of my footfalls-the field became just a field, the track just a ribbon of red clay, and the bleachers began to empty of ghosts.

在第三个英里的时候(也许那是我的努力，本可能是我…)足球场变成了仅仅的那样一个场子，跑道仅仅是1条红色混凝土的带子，看台开始空得像出鬼一样。

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One spring night, the couple was asleep when a broad ribbon of white light slid across the old woman's pillow.

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The reason it is so exciting that it's a protein, and it's a protein, this is the structure here, it's a ribbon structure so you can kind of see what it looks like, it's made up of all natural amino acids.

它这么让人激动的原因是因为它是一个蛋白质，这里的这个结构，这是个带状机构，你可以看到它的样子，它全部是由氨基酸组成的。

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Highway 2 is a ribbon of two-lane road that stretches across the entirety of Washington state.

BBC: A route of life-changing moments

The explanation for this lies with the "jet stream" - a ribbon of fast-moving air, up in the atmosphere.

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Volusia sits at the eastern end of central Florida's Interstate 4 corridor, a ribbon of counties credited with deciding close elections in the state.

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