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Facebook and Microsoft are laying a huge Internet cable across the Atlantic.
微软和脸书将建跨大西洋海底数据电缆k6_MaPZ6+|。
Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide”—this enormous underwater cable will stretch from Northern Virginia to Bilbao,Spain,
名为“MAREA”（西班牙语译为潮水）的海底电缆将从弗吉尼亚北部延伸至西班牙毕尔巴鄂，
transferring digital data across 6,600 kilometers of ocean.
数据传输距离6600公里I7.f&pLFY,7Vnlwn。

Providing up to 160 terabits per second of bandwidth—about 16 million times the bandwidth of your home Internet connection
数据传输能力为每秒160太比特，是家中网路频宽的1600万倍Ku067UTL-ft^X!^e|#。
it will allow the two tech titans to efficiently move mass amounts of information
作为网络服务奠基，海底电缆将提高数据中心，
between the many computer data centers and network hubs that underpin their popular online services.
网络枢纽的大规模数据传输效率6i2ISPeISb。

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词语解释

1.amounts of 大量的

例句：You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.
可以把大量的数据压缩到一张CD-ROM上O(ykFcuM#Mj+Lln。

2.allow to 允许

例句：They will not allow your more way-out ideas to pass unchallenged.
他们不会放过你这些古怪的念头的yyrj|].WLl7NW。

3.up to 多达

例句：I can take up to four people in my car.
我的车能载四人X._0ZB|T_qAArK|%|N9。

4.stretch from...to 延伸至

例句：Brigade 5's territory is said to stretch from Myawaddy, across the border fromThailand's Mae Sot, to Payathonsu.
第5旅的地盘从渺瓦底延续伸，越过边界到达泰国的美索，培雅峒素ew,vNy&V6P@%&dt%5。