She surprised him several times by seeming to start up beside him as if she sprang out of the earth.

有几次，玛丽让他吃了一惊，因为这小姑娘神不知鬼不觉地突然出现在他身边，仿佛是从地底下钻了出来。

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That's about how high an object would have to be orbiting straight up from the equator to constantly remain directly above the exact same spot on the rotating planet Earth.

这大约是一个物体从赤道沿轨道垂直向上运行的高度，这样它就可以一直保持在地球同一地点的正上方。

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Luna 16 landed on the lunar surface (in total darkness, no less), collected moon rocks, packed them up, and returned them to Earth.

“月球16号”降落在月球表面(完全是在黑暗中)，收集了月球岩石，打包，然后带回地球。

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She fell back to Earth, but the steel-spring bustle just bounced her back up as high as before.

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You shall not make yourselves unclean through any swarming thing that moves upon the earth. For I the Lord am He who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God: you shall be holy, for I am holy.

你们也不可在地上的爬物,污秽自己，我是把你们从埃及地领出来的耶和华,要作你们的神，所以你们要圣洁，因为我是圣洁的。

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I think that his deadpan way of bringing things down to earth when they get a little too highfalutin' involves the skill of a genuine stand-up comic.

我认为他是真的有漫画人物的效果,当他总是面无表情的’,让那些过分骄傲的人回归现实。

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This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.

BBC: Harrabin's Notes: Population overload?

Unfortunately, the earth's circumference at the equator is almost 25, 000 miles, so when we try to model the entire earth, and go up into the mesosphere (about 25 to 50 miles above the earth) the picture gets fuzzier.

CNN: Can you trust the weatherman?

These were pretty drastic steps, with complicated consequences, but they do not seem to have caused the heavens to open up over Iceland, to wipe the country from the face of the earth (unless you're counting all those erupting volcanoes).

BBC: Icelandic lessons for the eurozone