I do believe that there will be a time when we look back and say, 'Oh yeah, that was the plastic age.

我相信当我们回过头来看这段历史时，我们肯定会说，哦，是呀，那就是曾经的塑料时代。

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We now live in an age of plastic, she says, "and what we decide to collect today, what we decide to preserve … will have a strong impact on how in the future we'll be seen."

现在我们生活在塑料时代，她说：“现在我们决定收集什么，保护什么……将极大影响后人如何定义我们的时代。”

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The biggest finding in brain research in the last ten years is that the brain at any age is highly adaptable, or “plastic, ” as neurologists put it.

近十年里我们对大脑研究最重要的发现，就是大脑在任何年龄段都极具潜力，或是按神经病学家的说法，叫“可塑性”。

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At age 24--among the first to use plastic strapping, instead of wire, to wrap newspaper bundles after they leave the printing press--he bought out his father's partner and relaunched the company as Power Industries.

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While the others bow fully to the floor Al Qadri, in his old age, remains sitting on a plastic chair.

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Eventually, the Minotaur discovered that the ceiling was not the translucent blue plastic he had always assumed it was but blue-painted plaster, cracked and warped with age.

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