The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom -- which is a little less than two meters.

VOA: special.2011.03.06

They're from all over the place, so you could make up your own one on that.

到处都可以写,你也可以自己写一本

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The idea was that they would help advance the mortgage market by buying up mortgages from mortgage originators and therefore allowing them to make more mortgages.

其主旨就是通过,从抵押贷款的原始权益人手中,购买这些债权来促进市场的发展,那些原始权益人就可以去放更多的贷款

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Census data from 2007 and 2008 show that young people under the age of 25 make up less than three percent of America's self-employed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Some people said of him in real life he had a little button nose. I don't know from some pictures of the look, if they were without make-up.

有人说在现实生活中，他的鼻子,有一点塌，我不知道是否有,没画过妆的照片上有他原本的样子。

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"You can conquer disease,end conflicts, and make change from the bottom up.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

So I would help myself to this language of space-time worm object that extends not only over space but also over time, and distinguish the entire worm from the various slices or stages that either make up the worm or we could slice the worm into.

然后我借助时间虫这个词,这是描写物体,贯穿时间和空间的词语，并区分出整条虫,和不同的部分,这些部分是组成虫，或者虫可以切分成的。

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