New buildings sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

新的建筑物如雨后春笋般大批出现。

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All kinds of new survey methods and instruments emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. It is a tendency that digitalized survey instruments take the place of traditional ones.

各种新的测量方法及测量工具如雨后春笋般涌现，数字化的测量仪器已呈现出取代传统测量仪器的趋势。

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"I said:" Better, You gave me a spring rain.

我说：“不如，你送我一场春雨。”

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And here in the middle of the page a little ways down: My love's striped black-and-white cotton frock, jaunty blue cap, white socks and brown moccasins were not quite in keeping with the large, beautifully cut aquamarine on a silver chainlet which gemmed her throat, a spring rain gift from me.

在这一页中间偏下的地方：,我的小情人穿着黑白条子的棉布裙，带着鲜艳的蓝色帽子，白袜子和亮皮鞋与她脖子上那条优美的,蓝宝石项链有些不协调,这是由于那场春雨我送给她的礼物。

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The Lehman bankruptcy could be a spring rain compared to this hurricane.

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These places, which sprung up on the edges of campuses like dandelions after a spring rain, were the meeting places where students, professors, townspeople, out-of-town academics and other terribly interesting folk would meet, by intention or chance, and talk and learn from one another.

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If I'm being honest, I've never found persimmons, or lemongrass, or a gentle spring rain, in a glass of liquor.

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