Engineers like ceramics because they can be heated without melting, unlike metals and plastics, though, they are brittle.

工程师们喜欢陶瓷，因为陶瓷在加热时不会熔化，但与金属和塑料不同的是，陶瓷易碎。

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Engineers like ceramics because they can be heated without melting. Unlike metals and plastics, though, they are brittle.

工程师喜欢陶瓷材料，因为它们加热时不会融化，这点不像金属和塑料，尽管它们是脆的。

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There are metals which are extremely brittle, and even though the curve - would look very similar — - it has all these characteristics — this point, then, would lie all the way here.

这些金属都，特别脆弱，即使曲线，看上去非常近似-，它们都有这些特征-，那么这个点，将会一直呆在这里。

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The reason why the linings of nuclear reactors degrade is that metals can become brittle and weak when they are exposed to radiation.

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