A study in the US has identified the prime factors that drive the fizzy plumes from Coke bottles: the roughness of the sweet and how fast it plummets to the bottle's base.

美国进行的研究指出了那些引发可乐瓶里嘶嘶作响的泡沫产生的主要成因：糖的粗燥程度和他们垂直落至瓶底的速度。

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Greenwich thus became established as the location of the prime meridian of longitude, and the base line for calculating time zones around the world.

由此格林威治不仅作为起初子午线的所在地，也成为全球计算时区的基准线。

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Five days later Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's then prime minister, resigned, in part because of his broken promise to the people of Okinawa to move the base off the island altogether.

五天后，当时的日本首相鸠山由纪夫(Yukio Hatoyama)辞职，部分原因就是他没有履行与冲绳居民把军事基地完全搬离该岛的承诺。

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There are other reasons to assume a Facebook phone is the next logical step for the social media giant, such as it will cement its prime user base to it for just about eternity.

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The business grew exponentially and these two prime customers remained as my base for more than twenty years.

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The US is keen to move the plan for the new base forward and new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is looking to consolidate ties with Washington.

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