Think of wetlands as a giant sponge: the earth soaks up a lot of this water that's continually flooding the surface, which increases the amount of water below.

把湿地想象成一块巨大的海绵：地球吸收大量的不断涌向地表的，增加了地表以下水量的这些水。

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Poultries need a large amount of food and space, which is typically limited to expeditions, and they produce a lot of excrement.

家禽需要大量的食物和空间，这在远征中通常是有限的，而且它们还会产生大量的排泄物。

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Limit the amount of viral violence your children are exposed to. It's not just radio games and movies; children see a lot of murder and crime on the local news.

减少你的孩子接触网络暴力的机会。不仅仅是广播游戏和电影；孩子们还能在当地新闻上看到很多谋杀和犯罪的报道。

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At about nineteen-thousand meters, the air is so thin and the amount of oxygen so small that a person needs a lot of special equipment to survive.

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That's a lot less than the amount of money out there but they always had fractional reserve of banking anyway.

这比流通的金钱少的多,但是他们总是有部分准备金银行制度。

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You know, and within a very short amount of time be able to do a lot of things that that person may never be able to do.

在短时间内,可以做很多,那些只有丰富经验的人做不到的事。

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"Last year we learned a lot and got a tremendous amount of feedback, " he said.

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All told, there's a small deluge of new features that could amount to a lot, even excluding new hands-free elements like Smart Scroll.

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"You get a lot more sap in a short amount of time, " he said.

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