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。

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Chakrabarti says her method should work for satellites as small as one one-thousandth the mass of the host galaxy.

查克拉·巴蒂说她的方法只能应用于卫星星系质量只有主星系质量的千分之一的星系。

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Add in lawyers and people in real estate, and we're talking about more than 70 percent of the lucky one-thousandth.

加上律师和房地产界人士，就占最幸运的千分之一人士的70%。

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Well, then that means that you own one ten-thousandth of the company.

这意味着公司的一万分之一是属于你的

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The rem can be expressed in smaller units called millirems, which equal one one-thousandth of a rem.

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Even when adjusted for inflation, that's less than one one-thousandth of the sales this still lithe giant racks up today.

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Sharp's new finely grained silicon technology could ultimately produce transistors one-thousandth the size of current ones, well in range of holography.

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