A new book called Noodle Stories that was written 55 years after the birth of the instant noodles in Japan, mentioned that there were more than 100 billion cups of instant noodles worldwide in 2012—that's about 14 cups for every person on Earth.

在方便面诞生于日本55年后，一本名为《面条的故事》的新书写成，书中提到在2012年全球有超过1000亿杯方便面，相当于地球上每个人各拥有约14杯。

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The beauty, she says, is how local peoples' stories can help us understand the diverse ways that climate change affects different parts of the earth.

格瑞特说，这项研究的美妙之处在于，它使我们了解到了当地人的气候观察故事，而恰是这些故事帮助我们了解了气候变化在世界各地不同作用方式。

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After all, he had written six stories about the end of the Earth; they couldn't all be true.

他有六篇小说描述了地球的末日——自然，这些小说不会全部变成现实。

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As I talked to these women, I was struck that each one of their stories included some kind of earth-shattering experience on the path to becoming senior leaders at the UN.

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"These stories which hit honest, decent, salt-of-the-earth folk like the Pattons and those who work for them, hit us all hard, " he said.

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