He shifted his position from the horizontal.

他从水平姿势变换成其他姿势。

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The walls and floors of the building, called panels, are cast in a horizontal or vertical position.

建筑的墙壁和地板被称为嵌板，是在水平或垂直的位置铸造的。

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Position precedence rule. When resolving the float box position, the optimum vertical constraint takes precedence over the optimum horizontal constraint.

位置优先原则：在判断浮动框位置时，最佳垂直限制优于最佳水平限制。

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And, if you laid this out in a table, as Mendeleev did with his cards, you would find that the local maxima all occur roughly in the same horizontal position from the end points of the rows.

如果你们这些放到一张表格上去，像是门捷列夫用纸牌做的那样，你会发现局部的最高点,会出现在同一个水平高度,从这些行的最后一点。

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To compensate, some manufacturers will even slightly alter the geometry of a commuter cycle, perhaps tilting the seat post at a different angle, but that could potentially lead to shorter riders being forced into a more hunched or horizontal position.

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Unfortunately, tragedy can strike with as simple an act as brushing one's elbow across the table, and that's all it took for me to knock my smartphone right onto a hard surface -- facedown in a perfectly horizontal position (the worst imaginable angle).

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The main outer handles feel very similar to what you'd find on a bike, and they can even be shifted to a horizontal position for motorcycle racing by sliding two tabs that rest near your thumbs -- the right handle can even be used a twist throttle, but it's dependent on title support.

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