In most prison architecture, facilities are consolidated into one contiguous building.

在大多监狱建筑中，设施被合并成一个连续的建筑。

By size it is the largest state in the contiguous US.

按算，它是美国本土最大的州。

The plan would also offer the Palestinians contiguous territory for their state if they met certain demands.

特朗普的划还会为巴勒斯坦人提供临近的领土，前提是巴勒斯坦人符合相应的要求。

Who have been losing hope in the possibility of securing a viable, contiguous and independent state of Palestine.

他们对建立一个能自立、领土完整、独立的巴勒斯坦国的可能性渐渐失去希望。

Of America's 48 contiguous states, it is the only one with its own stand-alone electricity grid-the Texas Interconnection.

在美国48个毗邻的州中，得州是唯一一个拥有自己独立电网（得州电网）的州。

Of the 48 states in the contiguous U.S., the government reported that snow was on the ground in 45 of them.

政府报告称，在彼此相邻的美国48个州中，45个州有降雪。

The combined measurement of the coasts of the five lakes is thousands of miles longer than either the Pacific or Atlantic coastline of the contiguous U.S.

而这五个湖泊的海岸的测量度，要比美国的太平洋或大西洋海岸千英里。

That's how long it takes to fly a helicopter to all 48 contiguous U.S. states assuming your flying solo and setting the new Guinness World Record.

假设你是单人飞行，那这就是直升飞机飞过美国所有相连的48个州的时间，这创下了新的吉尼斯世界纪录。

The idea, says Sean Gerrity, president of the American Prairie Reserve (APR), a charity, is to create the largest wildlife reserve anywhere in the contiguous 48 states.

这个想法，按照美国慈善组织--美国草原保护区协会主席肖恩.盖瑞蒂的说法，就是要创建一个遍布各地并将48个州连成一体的最大的野生保护区。

Using the overlapping bits as a guide, the researchers marked each fragment's place in the genome to create a contiguous map, a process that took about six years.

利用这些重叠的小片段作为索，研究者们在染色体中对各个片段做记号，以获得一幅延续性的图谱，这个过程持续了六年之久。

(4) Assimilation: It refers to the change of a sound by the influence of an adjacent sound, which is more specifically called " contact" or " contiguous" assimilation.

(1) 脱落：语音脱落是指音位系统中作为音位的某个语音的消失。语音脱落也可以在语句中发生，往往是某些非重读元音发生脱落。(2) 添加：添加是指把某些语音添加到语音原有的链条上。(3) 换位：换位是指语流中一种可供选择的方法。(4) 同化：同化是指由于邻近语音的影响而产生的语音变化，更明确的叫法是" 接触" 同化或" 邻近" 同化。