At first, there were five strings, which represented five elements.

一开始，有五个字符串，代表五个元素。

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At first, the gugin had only five strings, representing the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth.

起初，古琴只有五根弦，代表金、木、水、火、土五种元素。

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Here is an example that shows some very, very metallic elements, groups one and two, and some non-metallic elements over here, five, six and seven.

举个例子,这个例子表明金属元素，第一族和第二族，与一些非金属元素,在这里，第五族，第六族，和第七族。

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Any one of these different elements could actually produce a photoelectron spectroscopy spectrum that has five distinct lines.

其中任何一种元素,都可能产生,有五条分立谱线的光电子能谱。

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The good news is the elements in any one spot in a hash table are likely to be a small number, three, four, five.

好的一点是在哈希表中,任何一个存贮点上的元素数据是很小的,三个，四个，五个。

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In Hinduism each wick of the candle represents one of the five elements: wind, earth, fire, sky and water.

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All our efforts should be focused towards building these five elements at various levels in a coherent and in an integrated manner.

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All of these institutions have pledged to provide every incoming student for the 2013-2014 school year with easy to understand information as part of their financial aid package, and that includes these five elements I talked about: First, how much one year of school will cost them.

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