The base-ten system used in modern arithmetic originates with the fingers, and linguistic traces of that fact remain in the similarity of "five", "finger" and "fist", and the dual meaning of "digit".

现代代数中使用的十进制源于人类拥有的手指数量，在语言中也存在“five”，“finger”和“fist”的相似现象以及“digit”的双重含义都提供了这样的证据。

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The system is going down in ten minutes.

这个系统十分钟后要暂停运行。

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The snowcapped peaks are Mount Griggs and (far right), part of an active system of ten volcanoes surrounding the valley, a hundred miles south of the proposed Pebble mine.

这两座山是建议开发的卵石矿南面一百英里的山谷周围十个活跃火山系统中的一个部分。

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Now American officials are investigating the brake system on the twenty ten Prius.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

One of the beautiful things about antibodies is that one your immune system is able to make antibodies against all the thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand different pathogens that you'll come into contact with in your lifetime.

抗体的一个绝妙之处就在于,你的免疫系统可以分泌抗体来对抗,成千上万的 甚至数以十万计不同病原体,这些病原体都是你一生中可能会遇到的

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The system probably will be completed by two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Since human beings have ten fingers, they have developed a system of counting based on ten.

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"I've got ten years to change the system--my kids are 6 and 10, " he says.

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Virgin Atlantic has bought ten planes with the entertainment system, which will slowly be added to its fleet.

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