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基本解釋

Fortunately we have good river water which we can cart in from upstream while the drilling – inch by inch – continues.
還好，在鉆井一英寸一英寸向前推進(jìn)時，還有水質(zhì)很好的河水可用，我們用車從上游運水過來。
Mama Lena's was already offering a 30-inch by 30-inch, 64-slice pizza when Carrabbia read about the current record holder in a trade magazine and figured he could beat it.
卡拉比亞從一本行業(yè)雜志上了解到目前的吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄時，“莉娜媽媽”店已經(jīng)有長寬為30英寸、可切為64塊的比薩餅可賣了，所以，卡拉比亞覺得破紀(jì)錄沒有問題。
Such kind of people are just like the water on the mountain. It stands high above the masses at the beginning, but gradually it comes down inch by inch and loses the chance of going up.
這種人就像山上的水，剛開始的時候，是高高在上，但逐漸逐漸地它就越來越下降，再沒有一個上升的機(jī)會。

We know that we stand on other shoulders and step by step, inch by inch, we make progress.
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We did it by summoning the courage to persevere, and adapt, and push this country forward, inch by inch.
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