Ground Zero

基本解釋

And Thrace, that strategic slip of Turkey on the western side of the Bosporus -- Asia's gateway to Europe -- is ground zero in this struggle.
而色雷斯，土耳其在博斯普魯斯海峽西側(cè)的戰(zhàn)略防區(qū) – 亞洲進入歐洲的門戶 – 是這場戰(zhàn)斗的零地帶。
But since the new digs were so close to ground zero, the immediate species loss ought to be have been — if anything — greater there than anywhere else in the world.
但是由于新的挖掘與地面幾乎零距離，因此如果有的話，應(yīng)該會發(fā)現(xiàn)最接近時間點的物種損失要比世界上其他地方多。
To wags during the cold war, ground zero was a favoured spot: better to be incinerated in the first mushroom cloud, they joshed, than to wake up to a world of radioactive rubble.
對于冷戰(zhàn)期間詼諧幽默的人來說更愿意選擇地面零點：他們冷嘲到，在第一個蘑菇云出現(xiàn)時就被燒死總比過后意識到全世界到處都有放射性物質(zhì)要好。

It has also sung at the White House, the Kennedy Center and at Ground Zero in New York City.
I assume that you know nothing, starting from ground zero here and build it up.
我假設(shè)你們什么都不知道,零起點,從頭開始
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Well, the energy at infinity is zero -K and the energy in the ground state is minus K.
無限遠處的能量值為,而基態(tài)能量值為。
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His campaign and Obama's timed their motorcades to arrive at Ground Zero in sync.
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People sometimes use ground zero to refer to the site of a disaster such as a nuclear explosion. However, it is used especially in relation to the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. 9.11