in extent

基本解释

As in the Oligocene before it, grasslands continued to expand and forests to dwindle in extent.
在先前的渐新世，草地的面积增大，森林的面积减少。
The industry wide synchronized interactions of those local value chains create an extended value chain, sometimes global in extent.
那些本地价值链的全行业广泛的同步交互作用创造出了一个延伸的价值链，有时甚至到达全球的范围。
Equally importantly, Integral found evidence that a population of binary stars is also significantly off-centre, corresponding in extent to the cloud of antimatter.
同样重要的是，Integral 发现双星的密度同样是明显偏心的迹象，在一定程度上与反物质云相关。
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Decreases in barometric pressure two to three days before the visit also appeared to trigger headaches, but to a lesser extent.
Self possession only to a certain extent because I'm living in a society where I have to take account of the people around me.
自我拥有是有限度的,因为我生活在社会上,我必须考虑到周围人的权利。
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In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.
在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。
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It is so long, though, that if the 3 billion base pairs were linked together and pulled out straight, the result would be a metre in extent.
ECONOMIST: Genomics has not yet delivered the drugs, but it will