He invented some story about a cousin.

他们编造了一些关于一位表亲的谎话。

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We paddled downstream for about a mile.

我们划船顺流而下约一英里。

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The ivory industry employed about a thousand carvers.

象牙工业雇佣了大约一千个雕刻工。

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It is about a man who lives alone in a village from which everyone fled during Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war.

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So, indeed, we are talking about a lot of void and a tiny little bit of extremely dense being.

事实上，更多的是许多真空,只有极小部分的高密度的物质。

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This is very simple but it's a great way to ask about a specific category among many different categories.

这是个非常简单的句型，但它在询问不同种类中某一特定类型的事物时是非常理想的句型。

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We talked about a lot of things, and we particularly spent time discussing Android fragmentation.

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But as the show winds down today, the biggest buzz isn't about a game.

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Another strange thing about a Viennese coffee house is that the coffee is almost irrelevant.

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