Most animals are not locked up in tiny cages. Rather, they are set in almost natural surroundings or well-tended gardens.

大多数动物都没有关在狭小的笼子里，而是放在几乎完全自然的环境或精心管理的园林中。

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More than one-quarter of the world's oil and almost one-fifth of the world's natural gas come from offshore, even though offshore drilling is six to seven times more expensive than drilling on land.

全球超过四分之一的石油和近五分之一的天然气来自近海，尽管近海钻探的成本是陆地钻探的六到七倍。

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The volunteers’ judgments about which artificial patterns best matched which natural ones were almost perfectly consistent.

志愿者挑选出的与天然斑点最匹配的人造斑点几乎是完全一致的。

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In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

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Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person emerging a person of what he calls excessive virtue almost hyperbolic excellence he says who stands so far above the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.

亚里士多德并未排除,这种人出现的可能性，一位他认为,具有过多美德，及几近夸张的卓越特质,他说，能持续凌驾众人之上的人,值得成为全面性的自然统治者。

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With no natural predator in the water, and almost no domestic market to sell them as food, Asian Carp threaten to expand into waterways through the city of Chicago, and into Lake Michigan, about 320 kilometers northwest of Havana.

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The data is so close to them it is almost natural to use it.

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Microsoft's Kinect has certainly changed the rules of the game since then, so it's almost natural that a fourth-generation Winscape has just launched to make use of the much more sophisticated sensor.

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In that sense, the appreciation for crises and opportunities is almost as natural as breathing for RIM.

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