A linear, commonly concave-based depression through which water and sediment flow and into which sediment can be deposited in distinctive, often elongated bodies.

一种线性的底部下凹的洼地，水和沉积物可以从中流过，沉积物可沉积在其中呈有特点的、往往是纵长的沉积体。

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Although a person's sweat pores often leave voids in a fingerprint, Wertheim says that these voids were unusually big and elongated.

虽然一个人的汗水毛孔往往会在指纹中留下空洞，但韦特海姆表示这些空洞被拉长，显得异常的大。

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Indeed, the "Chinese Dragon" often resembles an elongated male lion.

事实上，中国传说中的龙，通常类似一头拉长脸的雄狮。

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His early cartoons, used to illustrate his books of acerbic whimsy, were James Thurberesque caricatures of humanity elongated figures, often grotesque, usually absurd and ungainly looking.

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They gravitationally interact, and we get these sort of eccentric, elongated orbits and also these sort of closed-in, or what are often called hot Jupiters, which, interestingly, are exacting the sort of thing we see in many cases amongst the exoplanets that have been discovered.

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