Ten-second trivia: What sport are you playing if your teammate says pass me the truncated icosahedron?

如果你的队友说“把截短的二十面体递给”，你在做什么运动？

In geometry, a soccer ball is considered a truncated icosahedron because it consists of 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal surfaces.

在几何学中，一个足球认为是一个截断的二十面体，因为它由20个六边形和12个五边形组成。

We had a very truncated rehearsal time.

排练的时间非常有限。

Everywhere around us we saw truncated cones, formerly so many fiery mouths.

周围的任何地方都看到截断的锥体， 以前有很多火热的嘴巴。

Had his name been truncated to Edward Moore, his opponent chided, his candidacy would be a joke.

如果他的名字截断为爱德华摩尔，他的对手斥责，他的候选资格将是一个笑话。

There is a sense of mourning in the work, particularly with a truncated weeping willow trees gathering us up in their embrace.

作品中有一种哀痛的感觉，尤其是一截断的垂柳将聚集在它的怀抱中。

But he saw in the king the apex of a pyramid which, if truncated, would seen odd, and perhaps even ludicrous.

但他在国王身上看到了金字塔的顶端，如果将其截断，会显得很奇怪，甚至可能很可笑。

The sight of that abrupt and truncated animal padding softly across the quadrangle changed by some fluke of the subconscious intelligence the emotional light for me.

那只突然而截短的动物轻轻地穿过四边形的潜意识智慧的某种侥幸改变了的情绪之光。

Among the truncated leaves the passion flower opens pale lavender rosettes, fringed and marked at the center with the stigmata, and with stamens indicating the number of the apostles.

在截断的叶子中， 西番莲开出淡紫色的莲座丛， 中间有流苏并标有柱头， 雄蕊指示使徒的数量。

New World societies had just begun making bronze artifacts and had not yet started making iron ones at the time when the arrival of Europeans truncated the New World's independent trajectory.

当欧洲人的到来截断了新世界的独立轨迹时，新世界社会刚刚开始制造青铜器，尚未开始制造铁器。

Tommy, with true brotherly sympathy, was amusing himself by turning Dolly's skirt over her bald head and exhibiting her truncated body to the general scorn—an indignity which cut Totty to the heart.

汤米怀着真正的兄弟般的同情，把多莉的裙子翻到她的光头上，把她瘦削的身体展示给普遍的蔑视——这种侮辱刺痛了托蒂的心，以此自娱自乐。

The truncated 1940 edition was criticized for excessive suppression of the author's pro-capitalist leanings, given its expunging of passages about the British bourgeois trader, about comfort and luxury, and about Britain's colonial politics.

1940 年截断的版本批评为过度压制作者的亲资本主义倾向，因为它删除了关于英国资产阶级商人、舒适和奢华以及英国殖民政治的段落。

And that will perhaps be, I think, one of the most important moments of this truncated campaign, a chance to see how they respond to questions face-to-face in front of one another and to one another.

认为，这可能是这场缩短的竞选活动中最重要的时刻之一，这是一个机会，可以看到他如何在彼此面前当面回答问题。

At dinner that night he decided that it must inevitably be a truncated visit: about his own country Hosain seemed to have observed only that there were many mountains and some goats and herders of goats.

那天晚上吃晚饭时，他断定这肯定是一次截断的访问：关于他自己的国家，侯赛因似乎只注意到那里有许多山和一些山羊和山羊牧民。

In 2011, the new Pallada completed the voyage of the original Pallada, truncated in 1854 by the Crimean War and the frigate's poor condition, by reaching the shores of North America, and visiting Alaska, Seattle, and San Francisco.

2011 年，新的 Pallada 完成了原 Pallada 的航行，该船于 1854 年因克里米亚战争和护卫舰状况不佳而截断，到达北美海岸，并访问了阿拉斯加、西雅图和旧金山。