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基本解释

The teacher miscounted the number of boys.
老师数错了男生的人数。
They have retrained a number of young technicians for our factory.
他们为我厂再培训了一些年轻的技术员。
They cannibalized three aircraft carriers and a number of warships to form a task force.
他们抽调了三艘航空母舰和一些战舰组成一支特遣部队。

They also hold big shares of Citigroup and a number of other banks, as well as sixty percent of General Motors.
Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.
弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中花了很大功夫,试图区分出版许可管理和出版控制。
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And so when we say something is exponential, we're talking about in terms of the number of bits required to represent it.
所以当我们说某些东西，是指数增长的我们指的,就是代表它的比特数。
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More meaningful for pitcher pay is a quite different figure: total number of strikeouts.
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