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on earth

究竟；到底（用于加强疑问语气）

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究竟；到底（用于加强疑问语气）

IN A SENTENCE

How on earth did the cat get onto the roof? The ladder was still in the garage.
那只猫究竟是怎么跑到屋顶上的？梯子明明还在车库里。

来源：Expression Original Learning Examples — 阅读必备库 — batch23 · Expression Editorial Team段 editorial-base-on-earthOriginal English example and Chinese translation written for Expression; no third-party sentence text is reproduced.

在地球上（字面意义）

IN A SENTENCE

It is not the case that that we have organisms on Earth that are highly specialized for certain niches.
事实并非如此，即我们地球上存在高度专门适应某些生态位的生物。

来源：Most of the Web Will Never Get APIs for AI Agents | Dhruv Batra, Yutori · Chain of Thought — host and credited guests章 t-8段 sentence:e723d1c5e904168ce2366837Chain of Thought — chainofthought.show; https://chainofthought.show/podcast/63-most-of-the-web-will-never-get-apis-for-ai-agents-dhruv-batra/; CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; selection/segmentation by SharedEnglishCorpus. Audio not licensed.