A new plant will spring up wherever a seed falls on a suitable soil surface, but because they do not build big bodies, they cannot compete with other plants for space, water, or sunlight.

当种子落在合适的土壤表面时，一株新的植物就会在那里生长，但由于它们体型不大，它们无法与其他植物竞争空间、水分或阳光。

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The staff will be happy to help arrange for you to swim, sail, or water-ski.

工作人员会很乐意为您安排游泳、航行或滑水等活动。

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The best prevention for cholera is to boil or filter water, and eat only well-cooked food.

预防霍乱最好的方法是把水煮沸或过滤，并且只吃煮熟的食物。

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NASA used its Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite,or LCROSS, to look for water deep beneath the lunar surface.

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Realize that there's this wonderful mechanism in place that allows you to put your toe in the water for several weeks no less and then get a sense, and then decide whether or not this is something for you.

要知道这种好的评分体制哈佛也有,在这种机制下你可以先试听几周,熟悉这一机制，然后再决定这是否适合你。

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So, you assign values to very specific states of matter and call those the reference points for your temperature. For instance, freezing of water or boiling of water, the standard ones.

那么你对物质的,某些特殊状态指定数值,把它们叫做你的温度的参考点,比如水的冰点或沸点,它们都是标准。

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It would have been like running promotional campaigns for air, or for water.

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We can use it for telephone wiring or for pipes for water.

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Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, over 50 billion vertebrates are consumed by humans every year, a number that does not account for fish or marine and fresh-water invertebrates, or for biomedical victims of experimentation, from dogs to hamsters to rats and mice.

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