his starting material, as he describes in a paper in nature nanotechnology, is made of closely packed polystyrene spheres about a millionth of a metre in diameter.
braun博士最开始采用的材料正是他在自然纳米技术杂志所描述的那样,是由直径为百万分之一米紧密排列的聚苯乙烯小球组成。
kurzweil likes to point out that your average cell phone is about a millionth the size of, a millionth the price of and a thousand times more powerful than the computer he had at mit 40 years ago.
正如库兹韦尔喜欢指出的那样,相比四十年前他在麻省理工所使用的电脑,现在最一般的手机只有它的百万分之一大,价格也只有百万分之一,但功能则强大数千倍。
within the last 50 years - little more than one hundredth of a millionth of the earth「s age - the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere began to rise anomalously fast.
在过去的五十年里 ——只比百万分之一地球年龄的百分之一多一点——大气中的二氧化碳浓度开始反常地迅速上升。
so you really can」t be exact about a millionth word.
他说,「因此,你真的不可能确定第一百万个字。」
performing 1 million transactions a second does not mean each transaction can be performed in a millionth of a second.
每秒执行一百万个事务并不意味着每个事务都可以在一百万分之一秒内执行完。
a microsecond is a millionth of a second.
1微秒就是一百万分之一秒。
the large hadron collider (lhc) is a machine whose experiments will measure events that happen within a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second.
大型强子对撞机(lhc)所进行的实验将测量十亿分之一阿秒内发生的事件。
quantum dots typically have dimensions measured in nanometers, where one nanometer is 10-9 meter or a millionth of a millimeter.
量子点可以用微米来测量,一微米是10-9米或百万分之一毫米。
the poisoning is relatively rapid and a millionth of a gram is sufficient to kill.
中毒的全过程相当迅速,只要沾染上百万分之一克的有毒物质便会迅速送命。
as another example, cosmic rays have a wavelength of lessthan a millionth of a millionth of an inch, while some radio waves have wave lengths of over a mile!
再举另外一个例子,宇宙射线的波长不及万亿亿分之一英寸,而某些无线电波的波长却超过一英里!
quantum mechanics, on the other hand, deals with phenomena on extremely small scales, such as a millionth of a millionth of an inch.
另一方面,量子力学解决的问题是极小尺度里的现象,例如万亿亿分之一英寸。
to put that into some sort of perspective, a micro-metre is a millionth of a metre; the width of a human hair is about 100 micro-metres.
没错,一微米是一百万分之一米,人类头发的宽度大概是100微米。
the result runs at six hertz, about a millionth of the speed of a typical laptop computer.
成品能以六赫兹的频率运行,约是典型手提电脑运行速度的百万分之一。
a quartz wristwatch, by comparison, is sensitive to about a millionth of a degree, or 10-6 degrees.
相比而言,一个石英手表敏感度大概是一度的百万分之一,或是10-6度。
we don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
我们所知道的东西只不过是冰山一角。