A black dust settled on the walls.

一团黑色粉尘落到了这些墙上。

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When the dust settled, the space dreamers lost out.

当尘埃落定，太空梦想者们就输了。

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The explosion lifted about 100 trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere, as can be determined by measuring the thickness of the sediment layer formed when this dust settled to the surface.

这次爆炸将大约100万亿吨的尘埃提升到大气中，这一数字可以通过测量这些尘埃降落到地表时所形成的沉积层的厚度来确定。

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Even before the dust settled on the final vote, the finger pointing had already begun.

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When the dust settled , the Dow was down 22% in a single day.

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And yet, when the dust settled, that was the basis on which ObamaCare had been upheld.

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