Of the 150 million people who live across this string of islands, about 100 million depend on the mangroves and seagrass beds for food and building materials.

生活在这一串岛屿上的一亿五千万居民中，约有一亿人仰赖红树林以及长有海草的河床为他们提供食品和建筑材料。

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It now looks like bird flight was made possible by a whole string of such exaptations stretching across millions of years, long before flight itself arose.

现在看起来，似乎是在上千万年的时间跨度中，将类似的功能变异整个串联起来才使得鸟类获得了飞行的能力。

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The point here is that using a string parameter to send XML across a web service interface is generally considered bad design and should be avoided.

在这里我要指出的是，使用字符串参数通过Web服务接口发送XML通常被认为是糟糕的设计，应该加以避免。

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What makes Dr Burgess's proposal unusual is that he went out on a limb and suggested that these energy-sapping, curled-up extra dimensions should be as big as a few microns across, gargantuan by string-theory standards.

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The Atrium Palace Condominiums is one of a string of lavish high-rises that look across the Hudson River to the bright lights and infinite possibilities of Manhattan.

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