Surveyors marched inland from the coast for thousands of miles, stopping at increments of as little as a few feet to measure their elevation, and marking each increment with two poles.

测量员从海岸向内陆行进数千英里，每增加几英尺就停下来测量海拔，每增加一英尺就用两根杆子做标记。

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Once ingested by a caterpillar, the protein globule dissolves, releasing thousands of viruses, or virions, that after about two weeks multiply enough to fill the entire body cavity.

一旦被毛虫摄入，蛋白质小球就会溶解，释放出数以千计的病毒或病毒粒子，大约两周后这些病毒就会大量繁殖，足以填满整个体腔。

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When 28% of English children aged two to 15 are obese, a national shift on the scale achieved by Leeds would lengthen hundreds of thousands of lives.

英国2至15岁儿童中有28%患有肥胖症，利兹市所实现的全国性转变将延长数十万人的寿命。

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Two days earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Germany as thousands of people remembered a different war the Cold War.

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A national team led by two doctors at the University of California, Davis,studied hospital records from thousands of children with head injuries.

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The two withdrawals followed problems with the nomination of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who also had failed to pay thousands of dollars in taxes.

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Over the past two decades thousands of Chinese government and state enterprise officials have fanned out throughout Africa for diplomatic recognition, educational and arts programs, FDI and business loans, giant construction projects, and business and trade deals.

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In Peru's Huallaga valley over the past two decades the authorities have helped thousands of farmers to replace 81, 000 hectares of coca with alternatives such as coffee, cacao, rubber and oil palm.

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Unbelievably, they drew 0-0 at Old Trafford, and despite losing the replay 2-0, the two games earned hundreds of thousands of pounds for the club.

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