The nearly circular orbits of planets in our solar system led scientists to expect that planets around other stars would also reside in circular orbits.

在我们的太阳系中，行星的轨道几乎是圆形的，这使得科学家们预测，其他恒星周围的行星也会位于圆形轨道上。

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One problem with the collision hypothesis is the question of how a satellite formed in this way could have settled into the nearly circular orbit that the Moon has today.

碰撞假说的一个问题是，以这种方式形成的卫星是如何在月球现在的近乎圆形的轨道上运行的。

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He pointed out that the shape of sunspots weren't circular.

他指出，太阳黑子不是圆形的。

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The painting hangs in a circular room and completely surrounds visitors standing in the middle of the space.

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There is no way that you could irradiate a crystal of nickel with a single beam of x-rays and get that circular ring pattern if the electron beam were behaving as a particle beam only.

没有什么其他的途径,可以让镍晶体发射,单束X光来,继而得到环状图案,如果电子束,是以粒子束形式出现的。

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It's a double stranded circular piece of DNA, meaning that the 3', 5'ends that hang off are joined back together again to form a continuous loop.

它是双链环状DNA,它的3'末端和5'末端首尾相连,构成一种连续环状结构

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The circular movement of the cooking foods also meant that scum or skin formed neatly in the center, making it easier to skim the residue off the top.

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Framed by wood, they offer the inhabitants of this house, designed by Robert Oshatz, a circular view of the green world beyond the glass.

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Though the proposed solar panels were eliminated, the roof of the circular building cantilevers out to shade the east wall of glass.

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