Thompson's business was originally modest in size, but in recent years he has expanded it by opening scores of chain stores across the country.

汤普森的生意起初规模不大，但近年来他在全国各地开了几十家连锁店，把生意做大了。

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About 400 million years ago, when the present-day continents of North America and Europe were joined, the Caledonian mountain chain was the same size as the modern Himalayas.

现在的北美大陆和欧洲大陆大约在40亿年前是连接在一起的，在那时，加勒多尼亚山脉与现代的喜马拉雅山脉一样雄伟。

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Chart trail law is the effective method to the solution of complex parts process size and tolerance using size chain principle.

图表跟踪法是利用尺寸链原理，求解复杂零件工序尺寸与公差的行之有效的方法。

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Robert Bigelow, a budget hotel-chain mogul, built a life-size space station in his well-guarded Bigelow Aerospace factory in Nevada.

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Wishbook, the size of a Flintstone steak, touched off a months-long chain of daydreams and fantasies about lives lived in different futures: A Ted Williams first baseman's mitt could send your fate branching off in one direction, or so it seemed, a Coleman camp stove or Roman legionnaire's sword along other avenues entirely.

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