The Earth is going thin on top.

地球的极点正在变薄。

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You know who I mean - he's tall, with glasses, and ginger hair a bit thin on top.

你知道我指的是谁-高高的个头，戴着一副眼镜，姜黄色。

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Basal slip or sliding as it's often called, basically refers to the slipping or sliding of a glacier across bedrock, actually across a thin layer of water on top of the bedrock.

底部滑移，也通常被称为滑动，大致指的是冰川在基岩上的滑动，实际上是在基岩上部的一层薄薄的水上的滑动。

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Or,they place long thin rolls of clay on top of each other and then make them smooth.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Honestly, thinking of this like frozen yogurt isn't all that far off -- the Replicator creates solid objects by layering levels of thin plastic extrusions on top of themselves.

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Interior walls that look like hardwood paneling are in fact made of paper-thin wood veneer on top of Nomex honeycomb, a lightweight paper-and-resin material normally found in jet airplanes.

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There is no magic pot of money that is going to be created out of thin air to go on top of that.

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