There are 2.54 centimetres to an inch.

一英寸等于2.54厘米。

The depth of the shelves is 30 centimetres.

书架的深度为30厘米。

I trimmed two centimetres off the hem of the skirt.

我把裙子的下摆剪短了两厘米。

Both are moderately large insects, with a wingspan of around four centimetres.

这两只都是中等大小的昆虫，翼幅大约为四厘米。

One hundred centimetres make one metre.

100厘米为一米。

Shanghai is sinking by 1.5 centimetres a year.

上海每年下沉1.5厘米。

These raised it a few centimetres over a period of several days, as the lifting frame rose slowly up its four legs.

在几天的时间内，随着升降架的四只脚架慢慢升起，这些东西将它抬高了几厘米。

Her last throw was only three centimetres short of the world record.

她的最后一掷距世界纪录只差三厘米。

He will be 175 centimetres tall.

他身高会达到175厘米。

The ruler is divided into centimetres.

在尺子上分厘米刻度。

It can take a hundred years to grow a few centimetres.

它可以在几百年的时间里只生长几厘米。

Another small primitive bird about 33 centimetres in length.

又一种小型原始鸟，长度约33厘米。

She will be 168 centimetres tall. She will weight 52 kilograms.

她的身高将会是168厘米，体重52千克。

This wavelength of light can penetrate several centimetres into the skin.

这种光波可以穿透皮肤几厘米深。

The firm talks of providing “milliwatts over metres” and “watts over centimetres”.

该公司称能提供“米范围内的毫瓦级能量”和“厘米范围内的瓦级能量”。

It has clamped itself to a leaf 25 centimetres above a forest floor in Thailand, and died.

它迈着沉重的脚步自己爬上了泰国森林中高于地面25厘米的叶片上，然而死亡。

While she is not the world's tallest woman, her legs are 132 centimetres (4 ft 4 in) long.

虽然她不是世界上最高的女人，但她的腿却有132厘米(4英尺4英寸)长。

It now covers 4, 600 hectares and its water level is declining by 20 centimetres annually.

现在红碱淖占地4600公顷，每年水位下降20厘米。

The newly identified neutron star has a unique atmosphere of carbon just centimetres thick.

新发现的这颗中子星只有单一的碳大气层，厚十余厘米。

But my hands did not dare even graze her, and always stayed a few centimetres from her skin.

但是我的手甚至不敢碰到她，总是停留在离她的肌肤几公分之外。

Twenty centimetres from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it.

研究人员在她面前20厘米处放置了一张上面有两个黑点的白色卡片。

Because her upper body is of much more typical dimensions, she is 196 centimetres (6 ft 5 in) tall.

因为她的上身长短非常标准，所以她的身高是196厘米（6英尺5英寸）。

It was walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150 centimetres tall," said Takahashi.

它像人一样，用两条腿走路，身高约1米5。

The disc, about 15 centimetres in diameter, occupies pride of place at the Heraklion Museumin Crete.

这块直径约为15厘米的菲斯通盘出土于克里特岛，目前陈列在伊拉克利翁展览馆最显耀的展位上。

Standing 130 centimetres high, it had feet shaped like dragons that spat out pearls at regular intervals.

这只钟高130厘米，外表呈龙形，每隔一段时间会从龙口中吐出珍珠。

Suddenly he became aware of Julia's face a few centimetres from his own, deathly white, as white as chalk.

突然间他意识到茱莉叶的脸就在离自己很近的地方，死一般惨白，就像一支白色的粉笔。

A tsunami warning after a smaller earthquake, only two days earlier, had turned up waves only 60 centimetres high.

因为两日前才发生了一次小地震，地震激起的海啸仅六十厘米高。