Because P and S waves travel at different but fairly constant speeds, the interval between their arrivals increases in proportion to the distance from the earthquake focus, or initial rupture point.

由于 P 波和 S 波以不同但相当恒定的速度传播，它们到达的间隔与到震源或初始破裂点的距离成比例地增加。

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Facial width-to-height ratio (WHR) is determined by measuring the distance between the right and left cheeks and the distance from the upper lip to the mid-brow.

脸部的宽高比(WHR)是通过测量左右脸颊之间的距离和上嘴唇到眉中的距离得出的。

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This is the idea that the measured distance between two points depends on the frame of reference from which they are viewed.

这一思想就是，两点间的度量距离取决于他们观察的参照系。

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Mr.Thaksin,who lives overseas, has called for talks between the protesters and the government and has sought to distance himself from the rioting.

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So again, if you're at X and the winner is at Y, it hurts you minus the distance between X and Y, in terms of your unhappiness, about having a winner who's far away from you, winning.

再说一遍,如果你在X且获胜者在Y,它对你的伤害等于X和Y之间的距离,即,当选人和你之间的距离,这就是你在选举之后郁闷的程度

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As with music, any technology that brings these two groups closer makes the whole industry more efficient but hurts those who benefit from the distance between them.

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If there were no correlation between prosperity and distance from the equator, we would expect the green line to be centered at zero with random oscillations due to noise in the data.

FORBES: The correlation is there.

For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.

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