If the center of NGC 4258 were a star cluster, the stars would be so closely spaced that collisions between individual stars would have long ago torn the cluster apart.

如果 NGC 4258 的中心是一个星团，恒星之间的距离会非常近，以至于在很久以前单个恒星之间的碰撞就会把星团撕裂。

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The women filled most of Ward 2, a long, one-story building with a cement floor and two rows of closely spaced beds against opposite walls.

这些妇女占满了几乎整个2号病房，这是一个长长的单层平房，水泥地板，两排紧挨着的病床靠墙摆放着。

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This paper should be a research paper that is about 15 pages long, double-spaced (on numbered pages), with a bibliography of works consulted.

这篇论文要求是长15页左右的研究论文，两倍行距(标明页码)，注明参考书目。

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But what is possible is to build many smaller dishes spaced a long way from one another, and to link them with clever computer algorithms so that they behave as if they were a single giant telescope.

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In practice, a couple of widely spaced telescopes can take you a long way.

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So, for example, when it comes to forestry, there's nothing wrong with us cutting down some trees for timber, as long as you make sure that it's done in a sequence and is spaced properly so that the forest itself is sustained.

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