Flashes of light were followed by an explosion.

阵阵闪光后就是一声爆炸的巨响。

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He escaped death by an inch.

他差点丧了命。

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The town was rocked by an earthquake.

小镇受到地震的剧烈震动。

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And,the World Health Organization says asthma rates are increasing worldwide by an average of fifty percent every ten years.

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It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

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This quantity is exactly zero for an ideal gas and we'll discover why eventually it has to do with what we mean by an ideal gas it turns out.

对理想气体它是零,这点我们接下来会知道是,为什么，这与为什么我们叫它理想气体有关。

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He ran off, and police think he was picked up by an accomplice in a car.

BBC: Luton shooting hours after peace rally

Final selection of the Laureates is made by an international jury, chaired by Nobel Prize winners.

UNESCO: Professor Dame Carol Robinson

His log is subject to review by an independent auditor until later this year.

FORBES: Whose Rolodex is it, anyway?