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基本解釋

As an example, one of the best shots I have ever taken was of a body of still water at dusk.
舉個例子，我認為我拍的最好的一張照片就是黃昏時分一片靜靜的湖水。
The scientists have analysed the comets in the Oort cloud and deduced that 25 per-cent of them would need a nudge by a body of at least Jupiter size before they changed orbit.
科學家已經分析了奧特云中的彗星，并得出推論稱，其中25%的彗星在它們改變運行軌道前，需要至少木星大小的星體提供推動力。
Photo Tip: When your subject is of indeterminate size—a mountain, a body of water, a snowscape—add a sense of scale by including something of known size, such as a person, a car, a tree, or an animal.
拍照小技巧：當拍攝對象的大小不容易看出來的時候——例如拍攝一座山，一片水域，一處雪景——在畫面中加入一樣可以確知大小的對象，例如一個人，一輛車，一只動物等。

The concrete and glass museum is built next to a body of water, so it almost seems to float.
You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.
你可以說,這較不像是真實主張的本體,而較像是狡猾的訣竅意識,或說政治悟性。
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And again, Kafka invites us to imagine waking up into a body of a cockroach and we can.
這里,卡夫卡再次帶領我們去想象,一覺醒來卻變成一只甲蟲的場景,而我們是可以想象到的
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At one end there's a body of water and a guy with a bucket.
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