His breakthrough novel, in 1969, was The Andromeda Strain, which featured a space virus unleashed on Earth and was sold to Hollywood.

他的突破之作《天外细菌》出版于1969年，小说讲述了一种太空病毒在地球暴发的故事，并被卖给了好莱坞。

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The observation of longitudinal horizontal displacement of an earth dam is to observe the relative strain of the length between two displacement points.

土坝纵向水平位移观测是观测两两位移点间长度的应变值。

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The solution of the Earth elastic dynamical equations can be also referred to some relations of complex vector spherical harmonic functions to the elastic strain tensor in spherical coordinates.

同时还研究了在球坐标系下弹性应变张量与复数矢量球函数的一些关系，为地球弹性动力学方程的解算提供参考。

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In doing so, he brings the giants of modernism down to earth, observing their sweat and strain as if in the same room.

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Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).

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