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Physicists developed their big bang theory in part by observing that today the universe is expanding.
物理学家在某种程度上发展了他们的大爆炸理论，通过观测，发现今天宇宙正在膨胀。
《The Science of Interstellar》《《星际穿越》中的科学》
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I see Scott's point. Our expanding waistlines are a national wake-up call.
我明白斯科特的观点了。我们不断增长的腰围，是对全国人民的警钟。
《America Revealed》《透视美国》
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What's most alarming is the rate at which their military power is expanding.
最令人警惕的是他们的军事扩展速度。
《Enders Game》《安德的游戏》
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It's growing wealth and dynamism has created an incredible population explosion in an already expanding city.
日增的财富与活力造成了这个已然膨胀的城市惊人的人口激增。
《Chinese New Year》《中国春节》
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Instead of pulling the universe together, as we would expect gravity to do, the universe appears to be expanding apart at an ever-increasing rate.
宇宙并没有因为重力而向一起聚集，这与我们所预想的不同，相反宇宙却似乎是在不断膨胀，并且这种膨胀还处于一种持续增长的速度。
《TED-Ed》《TED教育》
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Because of this property of the cosmological constant, the future universe will be more and more dominated by dark energy, becoming colder and colder and expanding faster and faster.
因此，由于宇宙常量所具有的性质，未来的宇宙中更多充斥的将是暗能量，宇宙将会变得越来越冷其膨胀速度也会越来越快。
《TED-Ed》《TED教育》
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And how do you propose to do that? Hope you're not thinking about some sort of LSD thought control. Because there's only one mind expanding drug that this man enjoys, and that's called school.
你准备怎么做呢？希望你不是想着用迷幻药来对我进行思想控制。因为我只喜欢一种迷药，此药名“知识”，唯知识能令我着迷。
《The Big Bang Theory Season 5》《生活大爆炸 第五季》
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We obtained data showing how a single facebook friend request--this blue line you see here--can link someone in Chicago to someone in New York, to people all over the globe, in an ever-expanding network.
我们获得的数据显示出如何在脸书上发出好友请求，这条蓝色的线可以把一个在芝加哥和一个在纽约的人联系起来，甚至把全世界的人通过这不断扩展的网络联系起来。
《America Revealed》《透视美国》
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The Singularity. When the system is capable of recursive self-improvement, when it is better at recalibrating, expanding and spawning than we are, the brief blip of humanity's reign will reach its inevitable conclusion.
就是奇点，当系统能够实现递归的自我强化，当它能更好地进行自我校准扩张与繁殖速度都超过我们时，人类短暂的统治将不可避免地走到尽头。
《The Good Wife Season 7》《傲骨贤妻第七季》
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This semester, we really want you to focus on expanding your vocabulary.
这学期我们真的想让你集中于扩大词汇量。
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Next quarter we plan on expanding into developing markets.
下季度我们计划拓宽新市场。
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The police are expanding the search as the criminal continues to elude capture.
由于罪犯仍然在逃，警方正在扩大搜查范围。
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The move was to help PayPal compete with Google and Facebook, which are both expanding into the e-commerce industry.
此举是为了帮助PayPal与正在向电商行业扩展的Google和Facebook竞争。
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What do you mean? I thought we had agreed on expanding the product portfolio.
什么意思？我们不是已经同意扩充产品类目了吗？
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The clear inference is that the universe is expanding.
显然结论是宇宙在扩大。
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Engineers noticed that the pipes were not expanding as expected.
工程师们注意到管子并未像预期的那样膨胀。
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The recession knocked on the head any idea of expanding the company.
经济衰退使扩展公司的任何想法都化为泡影。
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The company has been expanding its customer base using trade magazine advertising.
这家公司一直通过商业杂志广告来扩大客户群。
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It seems that all the big cities around the world are still endlessly expanding.
似乎世界上所有的大城市都在不断地扩张。