It was only when the hull was hanging freely from the lifting frame, clear of the seabed and the suction effect of the surrounding mud, that the salvage operation progressed to the second stage.

只有当船体从升降架上自由悬挂，脱离海床和周围泥浆的吸力作用时，打捞工作才进入第二阶段。

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It is second only to the Mississippi River in width.

它的宽度仅次于密西西比河。

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It is second only to Japan's high-speed system in terms of scale.

从里程长度来看，它仅次于日本高铁系统，位居第二。

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He is only the second African to win the prize since it was established in nineteen eighty-six.

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And only after a while will we turn to the second and third question: Does it survive and, more particularly, is it immortal?

接下来不久,我们将会转而讨论第二个和第三个问题,它能幸免一死,或者,更严格地说,它是不朽的吗

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It is the only region that responses to 100 spikes per second.

这是唯一以每秒钟100次做出反应的区域。

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Second only to Uganda, it will start to see that happening in 1999.

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China has also seen its share of global scientific output, as measured in scientific publications listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI), double between 2002 and 2008 from 5.2% to 10.6%, placing it second only to the USA in numerical terms.

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DirecTV , owned by General Motors' Hughes Electronics (nyse: GMH - news - people ) unit, added 980, 000 subscribers last year to hit the 11 million mark, making it second only to Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ).

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