Earth's surface is not made up of a single sheet of rock that forms a crust but rather a number of "tectonic plates" that fit closely, like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.

地球表面并不是由构成地壳的单块岩石构成，而是许多紧密相连的“构造板块”，像一块巨大的拼图。

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At the start of a game, a number of pieces are placed on the board.

在游戏开始时，棋盘上放着许多棋子。

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The original number of several thousand pieces has greatly reduced to only a hundred works by today.

原来的几千件，现在已大大减少到只有一百件了。

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"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

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If I were to rip these pieces of paper, I wouldn't be destroying the number two.

要是我把这些纸撕碎,数字2并没有被我给损毁了

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Moreover, that collection contained a number of pieces that circumstantial evidence identified as suspect.

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This works by splitting a card number into pieces which are transmitted separately.

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In the years since, a number of pieces of debris as well as human remains have been discovered in Lower Manhattan.

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