Thyme leaves are curled, elliptically shaped and very small, measuring about one-eighth of an inch long and one-sixteenth of an inch wide.

麝香草的叶子是卷曲的、椭圆形状，且很小。大小仅有八分之一英寸长，十六分之一英寸宽。

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An ounce is one sixteenth of a pound.

一盎斯是十六分之一磅。

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On a cold and cloudy day in March of eighteen sixty-one, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States.

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We could also take the two eighth notes and divide them into two sixteenth notes and then we get one-a-an-d-two-a-an-d- one-a-an-d-two-a-an-d something like that.

我们也可以继续将八分音符,分为两个十六分音符,一二三四,二二三四,一二三四,二二三四,就像这样

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London, already by the late sixteenth century, one-sixth of all the people, I think this is E.A. Wrigley who pointed this out a long time ago--one-sixth of all the people in England went to London frequently, because London was absolutely gigantic as a city.

伦敦,早在十六世纪后期,六分之一的人口,我想是E.A莱格力很久以前给出的这个数据,他指出,当时有六分之一的英国人,会经常去伦敦,因为伦敦当时是个巨型城市

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Adding just one-sixteenth of an ounce of Doritos to a 7-ounce bag could cost tens of thousands of dollars every week.

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One can imagine Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Jesuits bemoaning loss of that career-making skill.

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