Even if all went well, it was never clear whether the high-speed services would generate enough income to cover cover the staggering costs of construction and operations.

即使一切进展顺利，我们也从不知道高铁收入是否足够补偿它在建设和运营上的令人咋舌的投入。

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The warp-speed sales of the tickets to his O2 shows indicated he is still beloved among his fans. A staggering 1m tickets sold out within a matter of hours after going on sale in March.

3月份开始发售的100万张O2伦敦演唱会门票在几小时内被抢购一空，这种惊人的销售速度显示出了迈克尔仍然受到歌迷们的无比热爱。

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This leads to an obvious conclusion: while Castle troops have a staggering damage-dealing potential, the lower level units lack speed.

有点很明显：人类城堡的低级兵种的速度使其不能充分发挥作用。

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The size and speed of the smartphone revolution is staggering.

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If indeed the speed of light can be exceeded, the implications may be staggering, and all speculation about our energy future is off.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest particle accelerator, uses a staggering 1, 200 tonnes of superconducting wire, similar to the sort used in MRI, in order to speed protons up to within a whisker of the speed of light and to collide them inside vast detectors, themselves stuffed with several hundred tonnes of superconducting materials.

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