Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.

在离村镇三英里的地方，渡船在一个树木丛生的山谷口靠岸停泊。

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Researchers have thrown up different figures for how much, and how fast, Greenland is shedding its icy mantle, which is up to three kilometres (1.7 miles) thick in places.

对与格陵兰冰幔脱落的规模有多大，速度有多快，研究人员已计算出各自不同的数字， 在某些地方最多达三公里（1.7英里）厚。

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When he picked me up he was driving a different car than the one I remembered. He explained that he puts on about 60, 000 miles per year and so replaces the car once every three.

他来接我时，开的不是我记忆中的那辆车，他解释说由于每年行车里程约六万英里，每隔三年他就要换一辆车。

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At one stage, the queue of stranded traffic stretched for up to three miles.

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About 14 million years ago, a period of climate change caused the formation of the Antarctic ice sheet, which averages one mile in thickness and gets up to three miles thick in some parts.

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They provided 32 million horsepower by burning 6, 000 pounds of fuel every second, and the five together put the largest rocket in history 38 miles up in under three minutes.

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