The entrance area of Yunyang Mountain Tunnel on Hengyang-Yanling Highway was widely distributed with mild clay, and it has poor rock stability and almost with no self-stabilizing capacity.

衡炎高速公路云阳山隧道进口端亚粘土分布广泛，围岩稳定性差，基本无自稳能力。

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"We know we live on a rock, but the poor people of Ascension live on a cinder," the residents of St Helena had joked before his departure.

“我们知道我们生活在岩石上，但阿森松岛可怜的人们是生活在火山灰渣上，”圣赫勒拿岛的居民在他离开之前曾开玩笑说。

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Xuehu coal main and subsidiary well have deep shaft, thick surface soil and strong disability, poor pourability in the hydrated grope rock and complex geology condition.

薛湖煤矿主、副井井筒井深、表土厚且膨胀性强、基岩含水层可注性差、地质条件复杂。

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Rock is a poor conductor of heat, so this wayward energy travels through it very slowly.

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Labour have criticised the government's sale of Northern Rock as a poor deal for taxpayers, saying it was sold off at a "fire sale" price.

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It also emerged that Sir John Gieve, the deputy governor in charge of financial stability, who came in for criticism for the central bank's poor response to the crisis at Northern Rock, will leave his job early, in 2009.

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