A Microsoft study in 2008, using a more conservative definition of friend, found an average chain of 6.6 people in a group of 240 million who exchanged chat messages.

微软在2008年使用是较为保守的朋友定义，研究发现在相互交换聊天消息的2.4亿人当中平均就有6.6个人相关联。

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These characters are not Jedi warriors or gung-ho buccaneers; just average working Joes, bored from too long in each other's company and chain-smoking in front of antique computer screens.

这些角色并非绝地武士，也不是狂热的海盗。 他们只是普普通通的工作者，在公司之间互相奔波和在老旧电脑显示器前不停抽烟而显得颇为无聊。

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The average neutron population necessary for sponsoring a persistent fission chain in a multiplying system, is discussed.

讨论了在一个增殖系统引发一个持续裂变链所需要的平均中子数。

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While we expect product shipments to decrease slightly, we estimate lower revenues and depressed margins due to rapidly declining average selling prices throughout the solar supply chain.

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Against that backdrop, retail chains are reporting their same store sales for July today, and so far they are less than stellar, particularly considering the comparisons are to July of last year when chain store sales fell an average of 5%.

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If it had succeeded, it would have been the first major retail chain to have customers shop within the social network, a place where the average American spends about seven hours a month.

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