As geologists, we examine layers of sediment on the Earth' s surface to approximate the dates of past geologic time periods.

作为地质学家，我们研究地球表面的沉积层以估算过去地质时期的年代。

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Caves belong to the most enigmatic formations, created by Mother Nature on the surface of planet Earth, or, to be more accurate, beneath it.

洞穴堪称最神秘的构造，是大自然母亲在地球表面，或者更精确些，在地表以下巧夺天工的创造。

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On his map, the surface of the earth is convex.

在他的地图上，地球表面呈圆凸状。

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The three men had found one of the largest amounts of gold ever discovered lying on the surface of the Earth.

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When God began this process of creating the heaven and the earth, And the earth was unformed and void, And his wind was on the surface of the deep and so on, He said, "Let there be light and there was light."

当上帝开始开创天地的过程，大地一片混沌，虚空无形，他的呼吸掠过这混沌的表面，他说，“要有光，于是便有了光“

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And the myth has to do with these sort of pictures I was just describing where we don't actually live on the surface of the Earth of in the light, but rather live in certain hollows in the dark where we're mistaken about the nature of reality.

那个传说与我一直形容的,这个大局有关,我们并不真正生活在地表,生活在阳光里,而是生活在某种暗无天日的黑洞中,一个我们都误解了现实本质的地方

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"Our design goal would be to make the astronauts, when they're doing geology, look like a geologist on the surface of the Earth, " Lutz says.

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But chip makers are having trouble making more precise beams, and the Global Positioning System, which allows people to locate themselves to within a few metres on the surface of the earth, is limited by the performance of its atomic clocks.

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On the issue of storms affecting more of the earth's surface, the worriers are, according to the models, just plain wrong.

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