With half an inch of rain per year, the beetle can only survive by consuming the dew it collects on the hydrophilic skin of its back in the early mornings.
在每年只有半英尺降雨量的环境下，这种甲虫只能通过它背部亲水性皮肤在早晨收集的水露存活下来。
She will start with a low one-inch heel and build up to a towering five inches by the age of 23, as she teeters into womanhood.
随着她从女孩变成女人，她将从1英寸的低跟开始，到23岁时逐渐增加到5英寸的高跟。
Having your model extend the chin forward by just a half an inch will re-define the jaw line regardless of camera Angle.
这种情况下让模特将她们的下巴向前伸半英寸，不管相机在什么角度，都可以重建下巴轮廓。
The more traditional surgery requires a 5- to 6-inch incision through the abdominal wall and generally is followed by two or three days of hospitalization.
而传统的术式，不仅要求在肚子上切一个5-6英寸的切口，还会使捐献者不得不在医院里呆上两三天。
It's true that after six months of working out, most of the exercisers in Church's study were able to trim their waistlines slightly - by about an inch.
在经过6个月的锻炼后，彻奇的研究项目中的多数锻炼者确实能够稍微减少她们的腰围-大约一英寸。
The collision left behind tell tale traces in the rocks - including a black 'mat' of soot an inch thick thought to have been created by continental wide wildfires.
这次撞击将能够告诉我们答案的痕迹留在了岩石里——包括岩石中一个1英寸（约2.54厘米）厚的黑色煤灰层，之前这个煤灰层一直被认为是由地球大陆上广泛扩散的野火造成的。
The 9-inch computer screen was surrounded by infrared transmitters and receivers that detected the position of the user's finger.
9英寸的计算机屏幕周围遍布了红外线发射器和接收器，用于检测到用户的手指的位置。
In 1811, David Thompson, a white trader, was in the north Rocky Mountains when he spotted a set of massive 14 by 8-inch footprints.
1811年，一个名叫大卫·汤普森的白人商人在落基山脉北部发现一串长14英寸、宽8英寸的脚印。
To remove the black and restore your pot to new, pour in a can of coke (or as much as you need to cover the blackened area by an inch) and put it on the stove on a low heat.
为了消除顽固黑斑，恢复原锅新貌，只用向其中倒入一罐可乐(或者只要刚好覆盖着变黑的地方就行)然后放在小火的火炉上。
The Aakash, which was developed by DataWind, a tech company, with the backing of the Indian government, has a 7-inch screen, runs on Google’s Android and will be sold for $35 to school students.
这款代号为“阿卡什”的平板电脑，由一家具有印度官方背景的高科技公司—数据风暴—开发，其搭载7英寸显示屏，运行谷歌安卓系统，对在校学生的售价为35美元。
We still lived in a world of desktop applications, powered by wimpy 286 microprocessors with 14-inch monitors that we squinted at.
我们仍然处于桌面应用程序的时代，使用功能有限的 286微处理器和现在看来不屑一顾的 14寸显示器。
Mould once had to use low-quality photographs to judge a work of art being offered by a seller. Now he is able to closely examine every inch of a painting by using modern digital imagery.
以前判断一件艺术品时，莫德得借助一些质量不佳的照片，而如今他可以利用现代的数码成像技术，细致地检查画作的每一块“肌肤”。
They worked with hand trowels, a plywood form for lining the shaft with concrete, inch by inch, and a sturdy hand-built crank for lowering a man to the bottom and sending up buckets of sand.
他们的作业工具是：挖土用的手工泥铲、浇筑混凝土井壁用的胶合板模板、还有手工制作摇杆。摇杆将一个人送到井底，那个人就在井底一点点挖土然后再通过摇杆把沙子一桶桶送到地面。
Such kind of people are just like the water on the mountain. It stands high above the masses at the beginning, but gradually it comes down inch by inch and loses the chance of going up.
这种人就像山上的水，刚开始的时候，是高高在上，但逐渐逐渐地它就越来越下降，再没有一个上升的机会。
Place a yardstick on the floor. Secure it by placing a piece of tape across the yardstick at the 15-inch (38-centimeter) mark.
放一个码尺在地板上，用胶带固定码尺在15英寸(38厘米)标志处。
On one of my corn strips, only 12 feet wide and about 400 feet long, there is, half way down one strip, a six inch gully created by a rain so heavy it melted a salt block in the pasture nearby.
知道吗？大雨竟在一块长400英尺，宽12英尺的玉米地间，冲开了一个六英尺的沟，使玉米地与附近牧场的一片盐区相交。
In fact, some people have said that using 11 by 17 inch paper instead of 8.5 by 11 inch increases their creativity.
实际上，有些人说过使用11x17英寸的纸张要比8.5 x11的纸张更能增加你的创造性。
Measuring just 1/8th of an inch by 1/4 of an inch, this is the world's smallest working train model by David Smith Photo: BARCROFT
大卫·史密斯的世界上最小火车模型，仅有1/8英寸*1/4英寸大小（约合3.2毫米*6.4毫米）。
Plan calls for computers, aided by thousands of three-inch magnetic spikes buried in the highway, to take complete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads.
这一计划要求计算机在公路上埋设的数千个3英寸长的磁钉的协助下，在车辆极多的路段完全控制车辆的运行。
The plan calls for computers, aided by thousands of three-inch magnetic spikes buried in the highway, to take complete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads.
这一计划要求计算机在公路上埋设的数千个3英寸长的磁钉的协助下，在车辆极多的路段完全控制车辆的运行。
Robins, for example, have increased by an eighth of an inch in wing length and about 0.2 ounces in weight since the 1980s.
例如知更鸟，自从20世纪80年代以来翅膀增长了八分之一英尺，体重增加了0.2盎司。
The researchers found that each one-inch (2.5-centimeter) increase in knee height cuts a woman's risk of developing dementia by 16 percent (and Alzheimer's disease, in particular, by 22 percent).
研究发现，膝盖以下长度每增加2.5cm，女性患痴呆的概率就会减少16%，阿尔兹·海默综合症的患病率就会降低22%。
In front of her was a [wooden sign] around one inch thick and two feet by two feet.
在她前面是一个1英寸厚，2英尺高2英尺宽的【木制批示牌】。
Pixel Qi expects to go into mass production with 10-inch displays by the end of 2009, targeting the netbook and e-reader markets.
PixelQi预期在2009年底前，10英寸显示屏可投入大规模生产，瞄准了上网本与电子阅读器市场。
For example, inspectors found open gaps as large as a half-inch by two-and-a-half feet at air conditioner intakes on the roof of the plant.
例如，检查人员发现，位于车间屋顶的空调入口有半英寸宽两英尺半长的敞开的裂缝。
The E170S features the same eco-friendly design of the E190S, but in a more compact 17-inch size. The monitor supports 1280 by 1024 pixel resolution and provides a VGA port.
E170s则与E190s采用同样的环保设计，不过屏幕尺寸减小到17寸，支持1280x1024分辨率，具备VGA接口。
It was taken in spite of the sharp resistance of the Chinese infantry, which defended it inch by inch, but in vain, on account of the inferiority of their equipment.
尽管中国步兵顽强抵抗，村子还是被拿下了，他们一英寸接一英寸的保卫着村子，但考虑到他们的劣势装备，这是徒劳的。
It was taken in spite of the sharp resistance of the Chinese infantry, which defended it inch by inch, but in vain, on account of the inferiority of their equipment.
尽管中国步兵顽强抵抗，村子还是被拿下了，他们一英寸接一英寸的保卫着村子，但考虑到他们的劣势装备，这是徒劳的。
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