When the last space shuttle readies for launch from the Kennedy Space Center, scheduled for July 8, NASA's giant digital countdown clock will be one of the most watched time pieces in the world.

美最后一架现役航天飞机“阿特兰蒂斯”号将于7月8日在肯尼迪宇航中心进行其最后的一次飞行 ，届时， NASA的巨大倒计时钟将成为最为世人瞩目的计时工具。

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To assemble a prairie takes time—even if you have all the pieces.

组装一个大草原需要时间——即使你拥有所有的部件。

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And when we see similarities in pieces of art, we assume some connection in time or place.

当我们看到一些艺术品的相似之处时，我们就会猜想，它们可能在时间或地点上有某种联系。

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Volcanic activity broke the large island into pieces that came to the surface of the sea over time.

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You begin to realize that all of these big seemingly complicated pieces of software in websites that you use, if you just hone in on little pieces of them at a time and you realize oh I can do that and oh I can do that.

你开始意识到,你所登陆的网站上这些大而复杂的软件,如果你只对其中的一小块代码进行研究,你就会发现,哦，我也可以来做这个。

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Winds,water and time had reduced Poplar Island to only a few pieces of land.

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Expensive cars and high-end time pieces have long proved a lucrative pairing.

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Astrium's role, at its UK centre in Portsmouth, was to integrate all the payload components, including hydrogen-maser atomic clocks, the ultra-precise time-pieces on which Galileo's performance depends.

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Despite the passing of time, missing pieces and unusual cause of death, the group determined it was a line-of-duty death.

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