Soon, the fountain will be overshadowed by a hotel styled after a classical Chinese pagoda, which, at 918 feet, will be nearly three-quarters as tall as the Empire State Building.
However, ancient giant sequoias can have trunks that are 30 feet in diameter — far too big to be sampled using even the longest coring tools, which are only three feet long.
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其余的门徒离岸不远,约有二百肘(注:古代以肘为尺,一肘约有今时尺半),就在小船上把那网鱼拉过来。
8the other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards.