低温使金属收缩。

Low temperature contracts metals.

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过去几年里许多不同的技术层出不穷，大部分是同过皮肤上的电极从外部对肌肉施加微小的电震动，使肌肉收缩。

Many different techniques have emerged over the years, most of which involve applying small jolts of electricity externally to muscles, via electrodes on the skin, to make them contract.

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这样可以稳定上下颌，这样骨头就不会收缩使你的脸看起来很老。

It stabilizes the jaw so the bone doesn't shrink and make your face look older.

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It has a very well-developed muscular tissue and its function is to contract and relax, contract and relax.

该肌肉组织非常发达,用来使心脏收缩,放松,收缩,放松

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One of the first steps in that healing is that fibroblasts like this cell crawl into the space that's created by the wound and they grab a hold of both sides of the wound and contract and try to pull it together.

愈合的第一步是,成纤维细胞向,损伤的创口爬行,紧紧地抓住创口的两侧,通过收缩回拉 试着使创口合拢

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