Mr Twombly, who is being given his first retrospective in 15 years, USES materials that have come to him at random-bits of wood, cardboard, bronze boxes, palm leaves and plastic flowers.

托姆·布雷先生运用那些随意选取的材料——木块、纸板、铜盒、棕榈叶和塑料花这些来创作了首次回顾他过去15年艺术历程的作品。

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Few researchers have used soft plastic in robotics before, partly because it can be difficult to shape small, precise parts out of such materials.

之前很少有研究者在机器人制造中用到软塑料，部分的原因是很难由这类材质造型出细小而精确的部件。

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You would be delighted to know that since 1960 we have been one of the main importers of raw materials for plastic and petrochemical manufacturers. Now we are interested in the following items.

想必贵公司当欣于知道，自从1960年以来，本公司即为塑料和石油化学物品制造商的原料主要进口商。

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GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.

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Oh, and they decided to build the airplane out of plastic along with other novel materials and technologies, so it would have been a big experiment even if Boeing approached manufacturing like it always had.

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Worldwide, airlines have been slowly but steadily putting into operation two next-generation aircraft -- Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350 -- both of which have shells made heavily of composite materials, such as carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, instead of aluminium.

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