Plastics freed us from the confines of the natural world, from the material constraints and limited supplies that had long bounded hu man activity.

塑料使我们从自然的限制中得到解放，从长期限制人类的活动的材料限制和有限的供应中得到解放。

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Ironically this magazine overwhelmingly publishes their 'most beautiful people' within the confines of that narrow corner of the world known as Hollywood.

具有讽刺意味的是，《人物》最美丽人物的评选只限定在好莱坞这一狭小的范围内。

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Thanks to science, our understanding of the universe is constantly broadening - and not just about the world at large, but even in the small confines of the bedroom.

因为科学，我们对整个宇宙的认知不断的拓展——大到整个宇宙，小至我们的卧室。

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Thanks to his mother who bribed a teacher at a state school, Marc escaped the narrow confines of the world of East European Jewry, learnt to speak Russian instead of Yiddish and eventually made contact with the bourgeois, cosmopolitan society in St Petersburg.

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