THE population of bugs in a Petri dish typically increases in an S-shaped curve.

在皮氏细菌培养皿内，细菌数量的增长模式是典型的“S” 曲线。

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They didn’t show off S-shaped curves or spout shameless nonsense for attention, but they have their ways to make it to stardom.

他们没有显摆骄人的S形身段，也没有胡言乱语引人注意，但他们独特的办法却为自己树立了明星般的形象。

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It showed the ice-encrusted north face of Everest and, below it, the great river of ice known as the Main Rongbuk Glacier, flowing in a sweeping, S-shaped curve down a broad, stony valley.

照片显示珠峰北坡被冰雪所覆盖，在它下面“大绒布”冰河以大幅度弯曲的“S”型曲线穿过广阔并充满岩石的峡谷。

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"Heart-Shaped Box" was one of the album's hit singles.

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I should be able to do nice bell-shaped curves, but it's harder than it looks standing up here; so that's your bell-shaped curve.

我还是挺擅长画钟型曲线的,但站着画真的不太容易,这就是钟型曲线

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It's a bell-shaped curve that looks about like that.

大概就是一条这样的钟形曲线

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Made of polished gold, with sweeping, scrolled, S-shaped antlers, it conveys a talismanic beauty touching on the divine and mysterious.

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They proceed along an S-shaped curve, with a few trail blazers lighting the way, followed every growing numbers of imitators who adopt the idea with its value demonstrated, but, then, a few laggards who for stupidity, pride, tradition, or whatever, hold on the methods that are outdated and unprofitable.

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Planned to open as soon as 2015 -- potentially ahead of Apple's halo-shaped new digs -- it's called Bay View and consists of nine buildings connected by bridges over 42 acres.

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