为了进一步保护这座房子免遭飓风的破坏，建筑师Huff使它高出地面2.7米，坐落于木桩之上；细长的方木桩深深地牢扎在沙地之中。

To further protect the house from hurricane damage, Huff raised it 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings-long, slender columns of wood anchored deep in the sand. CET-4, 2003.12.

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重力能使光线弯折，使巨大的星系团象望远镜一样，扭曲背景星系的图像，使之变得细长。

Gravity can bend light, allowing huge clusters of galaxies to act as telescopes, and distorting images of background galaxies into elongated strands.

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这些展品却使人大开眼界。靠墙排列着许多细长的电线，而电线又连着金属球。

These objects, however, were different. Lined up against the wall, there were long thin wires attached to metal spheres.

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