Starting this month, the new Xi'an Chengdu high speed railway will shorten this travel time to three hours.

从这个月开始，新的西安成都高铁将把旅行时间缩短到3个小时。

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The small kid was starting to fuss in her high chair, so the mom stuck an iPad in front of her and played a short movie so everyone else could enjoy their lunch.

小女孩在她的高脚椅上开始吵闹，所以妈妈在她面前放了一个 iPad，放了一个短片，这样大家都可以享受他们的午餐。

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As each wave came, the boat rose and fell, like a horse starting toward a fence too high to jump.

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Absorption is just the opposite of emission, so instead of starting at a high energy level and dropping down, when we absorb light we start low and we absorb energy to bring ourselves up to an n final that's higher.

吸收就是发射的逆过程,与从一个高能量到低能量不同，当吸收光时，我们从低能量开始,吸收能量到一个更高的能量。

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But the starting point was so high that even now the problem remains widespread.

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The company targets investment yields starting in the high 4% range.

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Although Android may well surpass iOS in the total number of apps (Dan Rowinski of ReadWrite estimates that Google Play will beat the Apple App Store to a million apps by June) the iPhone is still the starting point for most high-quality app developers because its users have repeatably been shown as more engaged than their Android counterparts.

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