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The world's highest mountain Mount Everest is 0.86m higher than had been previously officially calculated, Nepal and China have jointly announced.

Until now the countries differed over whether to add the snow cap on top. The new height is 8,848.86m.

China's previous official measurement of 8,844.43m had put the mountain nearly four metres lower than Nepal's.

語言點

1. Mount Everest 珠穆朗瑪峰

2. officially calculated 官方測量

· calculate v. 計算，測量

3. jointly do sth. 共同做某事

· jointly organize 聯合主辦

· jointly produce 聯合制作

· We organized the conference jointly.

我們共同組織此次會議。

· 注：在寫作中，“聯合做某事”用do sth. jointly會比do sth. together更為正式

4. differ over sth. 對某事存在不同意見

· The two sides differed over the question of pay.

雙方沒有談妥報酬問題。

5. official measurement 官方測量數據

· measurement n. 測量的結果(usually expressed by numbers)

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