Hurricane Irene is very likely to be the 10th billion-dollar disaster of 2011, breaking 2008's record for number of billion-dollar disasters a year, according to preliminary estimates.

飓风艾琳很可能是2011年内使美国第10次损失超过10亿美元的灾难，据初步估计，美国在2011年损失超过10亿美元灾害的次数打破了2008年的记录。

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And based on those preliminary data, we're also seeing a very rapid decline in bone mass in cancer patients on the order of as fast as what astronauts experience from microgravity.

初步数据表明，试验中癌症患者的骨量也发生了急剧流失，速度类似于宇航员在微重力环境下的骨质流失。

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And I've actually outlined it quite extensively and done a lot of preliminary sketches, because it's something I would be very interested in illustrating myself.

事实上我列出的提纲范围相当广，还画了许多初步的草图，因为这东西我非常有兴趣亲自绘制。

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"This is a very exciting but preliminary study, " said Robert Stern, co-founder of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at the Boston University School of Medicine.

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If we remove Venezuela as an extreme case, and we make a statistical correlation of all the other countries in Latin America, this preliminary data set shows a very low correlation between personal and economic freedom.

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But the officials said the activity was very preliminary, with no missile parts seen, and any launch would take a lot more time to prepare.

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