This method was very effective as the glass had not touched any surfaces between being soft and becoming hard, so it stayed perfectly unblemished, with a "fire finish".

这个方法非常有效，因为玻璃在从软变硬的过程中并没有触及任何物体的表面，因而在经过“火抛光”处理后能保持完美无瑕。

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Makers of floorings, furniture and glass, all of which go into houses, were especially hard hit and have yet to start hiring again.

地板、家具和玻璃生产商遭受重创，还没有开始增加雇员人数。

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Living conditions are hard in this concrete, steel and glass urban jungle, that has been cut away from nature a long time ago, with pollution reaching truly alarming levels.

在这个混凝土，钢铁和玻璃的都市丛林中，很久以前就与大自然无缘，污染达到令人震惊的程度，生活条件极为艰苦。

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And then there's glass and hard and soft plastics, and paper, and card and tin foil.

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While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.

ENGADGET: Nippon Electric Glass demos liquid crystal lens and 'invisible glass' at CEATEC (video)

Even from a distance, beneath the hard glass of the windshield, we could tell this was an exceptional animal.

NPR: 'Dog is My Co-Pilot'