Back home, things appear, on the surface, simpler.

回到家后，事情表面上看起来简单一些。

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More than a thousand people claim to have seen the bulbous back of an unidentified creature briefly break the glassy surface of Loch Ness, then disappear.

一千余人声称见到了一个未经确认的动物，短暂地穿出尼斯湖光亮透明的水面，然后逐渐消失。

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Then the snow's surface will help to send back sound waves.

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It will surface back up in another piece of work or another idea at some point in your life.

在某个时刻，旧点子会以另一种形式重新出现,或者另一个想法在会出现在你的生活中。

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It's firmly adherent to the surface here, it's firmly adherent at the back here, and in between its trying to pull these ends closer together, you can imagine that that's what it's doing, and in fact, that's one of the functions of fibroblasts.

它紧紧地粘附在表面这儿,又紧密的粘附在后面这儿,试着在中间将创口两端拉紧到一起,你可以想象一下这个场面,事实上,这只是成纤维细胞的功能之一

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In other words, it occupies roughly the same dimensions, but the taper on the back surface does a compelling job of making this feel thinner.

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He is an acknowledged expert in the area of federal infrastructure budgeting and finance, having had an active role in the financing of each of the last three comprehensive surface transportation reauthorization bills dating back to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

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As the fish sped off and line played out, Whalen struggled for 45 seconds back to the surface.

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