文字和插图按每英寸300个点的密度打印。

Text and graphics are printed at 300 dots per inch.

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昨晚的降雨量为1.14英寸。

1.14 inches of rain fell last night.

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我想把脑后的头发剪短约一英寸。

I want about an inch off the back of my hair.

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It reminds me of a joke about the statistician who drowned in a pool with an average height of 10 inches.

这让我想起一个统计学笑话,在一个平均水深为10英寸的游泳池里，谁会被淹死。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If you took a 15 inch artillery shell moving at the velocity it typically goes at, and take that amount of kinetic energy versus the resistive capacity of a sheet of tissue paper, that's the scale that we're looking at here.

如果你有1个15英寸的炮弹,按照经典的速度移动，会消耗大量的动能,抵抗来自于一张薄纸的阻力，这就是我们在这儿看到的尺度。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Now, you know, take your hands and kind of do that and you can get a sense of how small that really might be.

你们可以用自己的手指比划下,感觉下三英寸有多小

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