Suddenly, as if overnight, a significant fraction of the world’s computers were connected, not only by a physical network but also by a common protocol for exchanging information.

突然，似乎是一夜间，世界上相当大的一部分计算机被连接在一起，不仅仅通过物理网络，而且还通过一个用于交换信息的公共协议。

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Alternative energies are not dense at all and require gobs of space to generate a fraction of the energy generated by a small nuclear facility.

替代性能源则完全谈不上浓缩，并且需要极大的空间才能产出一座小型核电厂所产电能的一小部分。

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The longevity prize is held by an animal that could not make the receptor molecule for growth hormone and was thus a fraction of the size of normal mice.

长生奖的得主则是一只无法合成生长激素受体分子的老鼠——其体型与一般老鼠并无二致。

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The sadness being that while such policies would most certainly reduce poverty they would not move the poverty rate by one single fraction of a percentage point.

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He may be consoled by the thought that Israel has not yet called up more than a fraction of its army, and that in past wars that started badly, notably the one in 1973, Israel has still gone on to win.

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Political cases make for big headlines--witness the rescue this summer of Ingrid Betancourt and three Northrop Grumman contractors held for years by insurgents in the Colombian jungle--but these are not a large fraction of the cases.

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