By wearing large ruffs made out of the finest materials adorned with lace and decorated with gold, these noble folks demonstrated to the world that they didn't have to perform tasks like those undertaken by commoners.

这些贵族佩戴着用上等材料做成的大颈圈，上面缀有蕾丝和金饰，这向世人展示不必像平民那样从事辛苦劳作。

Now, our general theory for how the solar system came to be starts with a big disk of rock and metal and gas and dust and stuff all spinning around the newly formed sun.

目前，关于太阳系如何形成的一般理论是：一由岩石、金属、气体、尘埃等物质组成的大圆盘，围绕着新形成的太阳旋转。

The puffin chicks from Newfoundland were put in each of these burrows, hand fed and they would come out when they were six weeks old.

将来自纽芬兰的海鹦雏鸟放在这些洞穴中人工喂养，等它长到六周大的时候就会出来。

It noted that criminals make and sell high-demand products like face masks or medicine.

该组织指出，犯罪分子制造和销售诸如口罩和药品等需求量大的产品。

As I got older, I had a huge crush on a girl.

等大一些的时候，我疯狂地爱上一女孩子。

He, too, wrote thrilling accounts of their underwater adventures and even starred in a Hollywood movie called Titans of the Deep, featuring a bathysphere and many exciting and largely fictionalized encounters with aggressive giant squid and the like.

巴顿还写许多关于水下冒险活动的精彩故事，甚至在一部名叫《大海深处的庞然大物》的电影中担任角色，描述一探海球以及许多次与凶猛的大乌贼等的遭遇。那些故事是激动人心的，不在很大程度上是虚梅的。

But that doesn't mean that Texas is small, the Texan population stands at 28,305,000 people, which would make it the 50th most populous country in the world, ahead of a lot bigger countries like Australia.

但这并不意味着德州很小，德州人口为 2830.5 万人，这将使其成为世界上人口第 50 多的国家，超澳大利亚等更大的国家。

In the world today, nuclear power plants create tremendous amounts of energy by splitting the nuclei of large atoms, like uranium and plutonium.

当今世界上，核电裂变铀和钚等大质量原子的原子核来创造出巨大的能量。

And a fourth source of heat is from dense material like iron and nickel sinking to the center of the Earth, which warms things up due to friction.

第四来源是铁和镍等密度大的物质向地球中心下沉时，由于它和物质之间的摩擦而增加温度。

The three-day Internet of Things event includes a summit, an exhibition featuring the latest applications and products, and ten forums focusing on themes including 5G and big data.

为期三天的物联网活动包括一峰会，一展示最新应用和产品的展览，以及围绕 5G 和大数据等主题的 10 论坛。

It was a weary vigil, but it had the sort of excitement a sportsman feels when he lies before the watercourse and waits for the big game.

守夜很艰辛，但是有种冒险者躺在河道前，等着大猎物时的兴奋心情。

BCG reckons that as firms gain sufficient scale in markets such as foreign exchange, the cost of each currency trade falls by almost a third.

波士顿咨询公司（BCG）估计，当公司在外汇等市场有足够大的规模后，每笔货币交易的成本大约会降低三分之一。

While the Earth is about 4. 6bn years old, Brocks said, animal-like creatures and other larger things like seaweed only emerged about 600m years ago.

布罗克斯说，虽然地球大约有46亿年的历史，动物以及海藻等更大的生物在大约6亿年前才出现。

Sources tell the FT that the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority wants to see more data from big providers like Amazon and Google and Microsoft.

消息人士告诉《金融时报》，英国审慎监管局希望看到来自亚马逊、谷歌和微软等大供应商的更多数据。

OVER THE PAST several weeks, many people have been bombarded with emails about data privacy from major corporations such as Twitter and Facebook.

去几周里，许多人都遭到推特和Facebook等大公司发来的有关数据隐私的电子邮件的狂轰滥炸。

He said the company aims to remove in-demand metals such as nickel and cobalt from its batteries, without losing energy density.

说，该公司的目标是在不放弃能量密度的情况下，从电池中去除镍和钴等需求大的金属。

Cooks who prepare meals have been replaced by food stations at large companies such as Verizon and UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Verizon和UnitedHealth Group Inc。等大公司的主厨已经被食品取代。

Before the second world war, Berlin was a cradle of mighty firms such as Daimler and Siemens.

二战前，柏林是戴姆勒和西门子等大公司的摇篮。

Simultaneously, the DC State economy would be larger than any of the next 17 states including pretty large states like Nebraska and Arkansas.

同时，华盛顿特区的经济规模将超后面 17 州中的任何一，包括内布拉斯加州和阿肯色州等相当大的州。

Older might be, may I please have a turn when you're done?

" 等大一点儿的孩子，等你玩完能让我玩会儿吗？"