You could actually draw out a 36,000-kilometer strand or ribbon of nanotubes stronger than steel, but maybe a thousandth the thickness of a human hair.
你真的能够拉出一条36000公里长的纳米管线，或者纳米管带，其强度比钢铁要高，但其厚度可能只是人类头发的千分之一。
One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across.
一微米等于千分之一毫米。针头直径大约一毫米。
Because these tubes are a thousandth of the diameter of carbon fibres, they can slip into the microscopic Spaces between them.
因为纳米碳管的直径仅是碳纤维直径的千分之一，它可以穿过碳纤维中的细缝。
Of the 1.39 billion cubic kilometers (331 million cubic miles) of water on Earth, just a thousandth of 1% exists as water vapor.
地球上约有13.9亿立方千米(约3.31亿立方英里)的水，仅有那1%(约139万立方千米)中的千分之一以水蒸气的形式存在。
In general, they have picked them up at signal strengths less than a thousandth of that needed to display an image on a TV screen.
通常，他们使用的信号强度不足电视显像信号的千分之一。
The manner in which light is scattered allows detection of bubbles down to less a thousandth of a millimeter, or a micron in diameter.
光线散射的方式有助于检测毫米，也就是直径千分之一微米的气泡。
Graham said that, if someone walked through the beam, it would shut down within a thousandth of a second, then restart once the path was clear.
Graham说，一旦有人穿越光束，它会在千分之一秒内关闭，并在路径无障后即刻重启。
As these lived for less than a thousandth of a second, their presence was ascertained by examining the daughter atoms into which they quickly decayed.
并且这些原子的生命周期小于千分之一秒，它们的存在可以通过检测它们飞快消失之后留下的子原子而得到确认。
The threshold level at which some kind of reaction can occur may be less than a thousandth of a potentially fatal dose, so where do you draw the line?
可能发生某种反应的临界值也许不到可能致命剂量的千分之一，那么，你在哪里划这条线呢？
She could not write, because she could not attain to expressing truly in a letter a thousandth part of what she habitually expressed in voice and smile and eyes.
她不擅长于写信，因为她不能在信中真实地表达她惯于用那语声、微笑和眼神所表达的千分之一的情感。
The startling images confirm that the DNA origami process efficiently produced Escher-like Möbius strips measuring less than a thousandth the width of a human hair.
令人吃惊的图像证实了DNA折纸过程中有效地产生埃舍尔式的莫比乌斯带测量超过千分之一的人类头发的宽度减少。
A year later, they successfully fused two atomic nuclei from these elements, creating their first nucleus of element 113, but it decayed in less than a thousandth of a second.
一年后，他们成功地让两个元素的原子核聚变，创造出了他们的首个113号元素原子核，但过了不到千分之一秒，它就衰变了。
Once that has happened, the water simply evaporates and the desired electronic sandwich is left behind in a thousandth of the time that it would take to make it using vacuum deposition.
一旦此工序完成，仅仅是水份被蒸发而所需的电子“三明治”得以保留，整个过程所花费的时间仅为“真空沉积法”的千分之一。
"This is basically a new method to render dark galaxies visible," she said, adding that her technique should be able to detect dim dwarf galaxies as small as a thousandth the mass of the Milky Way.
“这在根本上是一个使暗星系可见的全新方法，”她说道，通过她的方法将使得小到只有银河系千分之一质量的暗矮星系能被观测到。
Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.
在当前对联邦赤字的担忧中，“伸手摘星”的尝试似乎是一种可有可无的奢侈——似乎只要一年省下千分之一的预算就能解决我们的问题。
The light, about one thousandth of the amount needed to read by, is just a start.
光线，大约是阅读所需数量的千分之一，仅仅是一个开始。
A micrometer is one thousandth of one millimeter.
一微米是一毫米的千分之一。
This was not the first synthetic virus — a polio virus had been made a year before — but it was only one ten-thousandth as active and it took three years to do.
这并不是第一个合成的病毒——某种脊髓灰质炎病毒已在一年前制造出来——却是唯一一个具有百分之一活性的病毒，花了三年时间才合成成功。
Fresh from her interviews with Japanese media, she obligingly retold the story, for what must be the thousandth time, of how she built her brand like it's a fresh tale for her.
虽然刚刚结束日本媒体的采访，羽西又亲切地给我讲述了一遍她创立品牌的故事。这个故事她肯定向他人讲述了一千多遍，但她仍然像第一次讲述那样激动。
But even the brightest city in America, Las Vegas, emits only about a ten-thousandth as much light as the sun shines upon the same area.
但即使是美国最亮的城市拉斯维加斯，其发出的亮度也仅只及太阳光在这块区域反射亮度的万分之一。
But the weaving of these yarns, which may be only one-thousandth of a millimetre thick, is complicated and expensive.
这些线可能仅有千分之一毫米那么粗，所以要用这些线进行编织是很麻烦的，并且费用也相当昂贵。
As if that were not enough of an impact, sunscreens increasingly contain nanoparticles, smaller than one one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair.
就像是怕以前作用还不够似的，现在防晒霜遮阳剂包含的纳米粒子越来越多，比人类头发直径的千分之一还小。
The work still has a long way to go, though. The transmission only successfully received one one-thousandth of the total power sent, a very low efficiency.
不过这个计划还有很长的路要走，目前的传输效率仅为千分之一，这样的能耗让人无法接受。
In an ultracapacitor, the distance between the ions and opposite-charged electrode is so tiny it's measured in nanometers (one-thousandth of a micron).
在超级电容中，离子和带相反电荷的电极之间的距离非常小，需要用纳米（千分之一微米）计算。
A large fraction of the top 1 percent's gains have actually gone to an even smaller group, the top 0.1 percent - the richest one-thousandth of the population.
最顶层1%人士收益中的一大部分实际上到了人数更少的人即最顶层的0.1%的手里，他们是最富有的千分之一。
And they found that the protective covering is actually only 6 nanometers thick. That's about a fifteen-thousandth as thick as a sheet of paper.
他们发现，保护敷层实际上只有6纳米厚，大概是一张纸的千分之十五的厚度。
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
大部分人不会意识到微生物的存在，因为他们的肉眼看不见，但事实上，微生物占据了地球大约一半的生物量，而所有的动物加起来，也不过占地球总生物量的千分之一。
The planet blocked about a ten-thousandth of its star's light, "like if you had 10,000 light bulbs and take one away," Batalha said.
Kepler 10 - b在围绕恒星运转时会遮挡恒星千分之一的光芒，举个例子来说，就好像你从一万多个灯泡中取走一个。
A millimeter is one-thousandth of a meter.
一毫米是一米的千分之一。
A unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a Curie.
放射性单位等于千分之一居里。
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