We float around in the air and the slightest touch may send us floating off in the opposite direction.

我们在空气中四处漂浮，即使是最轻微的碰触，都可以将我们推向相反的方向。

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People would have to wear boots that are specially designed to prevent themselves from floating off into space.

人们可能得穿上特殊设计的靴子，防止自己漂浮到太空中去。

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S. Energy Information Administration. Crude stocks in Europe have tested capacity, and there are some 44 million barrels of oil floating off Singapore.

欧洲原油库存已经在考验存储能力，大约有4,400万桶原油存放在新加坡海面上漂浮的油轮之中。

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Similarly, a pale room needs some anchoring items to stop it from floating off on a cloud of pastel marshmallows.

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It seems outrageous that anyone could write about the stark, volcanic rocks floating off the coast of South America without mentioning their most famous visitor after Charles Darwin.

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In 1999, one of the most well-known attempts at migration to the United States occurs when six-year-old Elian Gonzalez is brought to Miami after he is found floating off the coast of South Florida.

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