它们变得越来越大，占据的土地面积更广，其中的树木也更粗壮了。

They are growing larger, both in the sense that they occupy more land and that the trees in them are bigger.

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在冰川曾占据的地方，现在出现了一个湖泊。

Where glacier once rested, a lake now exists.

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一个没有与行动结合的想法永远不会变得比它所占据的脑细胞更大。

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

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What place can it occupy in each type of discourse, what functions can it assume, and by obeying what rules?"

它可以在每种话语中占据什么样的位置，它在遵循什么原则的情况下可以有什么样的功能？“

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When you don't have to worry about criteria like that ordinary, mechanical energy rules supreme, and that's dictating where equilibrium lies.

如果你不担心像这样的要求,通常的机械能就占据主要地位，并且决定平衡位于何处。

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If the atom is fixed mass, the electron is tiny, It must be the positives have all the mass.

如果是原子质量一定，电子很小，带正电荷的部分几乎占据了全部质量。

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