斯特西·奥格蒙“塑料人”的名字很不错，我不介意每过上20年另有球员使用这个名字。
Stacey "Plastic Man" Augmon is perfect and I wouldn't mind if it were reused on a different player every 20 years or so.
有些人把塑料称为未来的“木材”。
在塔尔，多达12人挤在用芦苇和塑料布拼凑而成的简陋棚子里。
In Tal, as many as 12 people are crammed into flimsy shelters patched together from reeds and plastic sheets.
现在，当地人可以把塑料杯或塑料瓶直接放在公交车上，用以支付乘坐巴士的费用。
Now, locals can pay for their bus rides by putting plastic cups or bottles directly on the bus.
我们小组中的一个人落下一个空的塑料瓶，孩子们争先恐后的争夺它，似乎它是金子做的。
When one of our team let an empty plastic bottle fall to the ground, kids wrestled for it as if it were gold.
一名特工抓住嫌疑人的马甲把他拖了起来，另一名特工把他的胳膊反剪到背后，用塑料手铐铐紧手腕。
One agent grabbed the man by his vest and hauled him off the ground. The other twisted his arms behind him and snapped plastic cuffs over the wrists.
有些人以为这些物体可能是聚光灯发光时产生的热量捕捉到的漂浮在高空的纸片或塑料碎片。
Some viewers wondered if they were scraps of paper or plastic caught in updrafts from the spotlights’ heat.
但是很明显的是，用拙劣的方式对塑料品与电子垃圾进行加工处理会释放出有毒化学物质，对人与环境都会造成伤害—这是垃圾回收处理的负面影响。
But it is clear that processing plastic and electronic waste in a crude manner releases toxic chemicals, harming people and the environment-the opposite of what recycling is supposed to achieve.
“人是分三六九等的”，周对我们说道。他依靠着一个破旧的塑料编织袋，而他2岁的孙子则盖着他那帆布夹克躺在编织袋上面。
"The people are not equal," he'd said earlier, leaning back against a worn plastic bag as he cradled a 2-year-old grandson wrapped in a canvas jacket being used as a blanket.
不过还没有发现乙烯基玩具和其他软性塑料中的邻苯二甲酸酯会影响人的行为。
No behavioral effects were found for the phthalates used in vinyl toys and other soft plastics.
一个嗑了药的叫赫比的加州人迷迷糊糊地跟在他们后面，手里拎着根木头，尖上钉着一只随风飞舞的塑料蝴蝶。
A spaced-out Californian named Herbie tagged along, carrying a wooden staff with a plastic butterfly dancing from the tip.
用来做姜饼人模型的塑料就会产生DCA。
The gingerbread man was made of molded plastic that had been made with DCA.
荷兰艺术家西奥·扬森(Theo Jansen)曾经创造了一个复杂而精细、长30英尺、依靠风力自动步行的塑料机器人，因而名声大噪。
Dutch artist Theo Jansen made his name creating intricate and elegantly haunting 30-foot-long plastic creatures that walk on their own, powered by the wind.
本专栏将Playmobil玩偶提名为“年度欧洲人”。 这是一个身形矮小，两腿僵直，始终面带微笑的塑料小人，诞生于30年前，如今年每年要生产8000万个。
This column offers as its European of the Year Playmobil man, a short, stiff-legged, eternally smiling, plastic figure first created three decades ago, and today churned out at a rate of 80m a year.
每个人都损失很大， 有些人的存货都卖不掉，" 他说:"我们一般把这些货再卖给工厂， 工厂回收做成塑料片。
Usually we sell to factories and they recycle them into plastic chips.
乐高积木是世界上最流行的玩具，而且我认为我们每一个人都玩过这些有名的塑料块。
Lego is the most popular toy in the world and I think everyone of us played with these famous plastic bricks.
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。
Few researchers have used soft plastic in robotics before, partly because it can be difficult to shape small, precise parts out of such materials.
按照韦斯曼的推测，住人的地区将会在500年内变回森林。只有那些最顽固的人类造物，比如某些塑料制品，才能保持不变。
By Mr Weisman's reckoning, residential neighbourhoods would return to forest in 500 years and only the most stubborn of human inventions, such as certain plastics, would prove permanent.
没有什么比拆开新买来商品里大片大片的塑料来取出东西更让人沮丧的了。
There's nothing more depressing than unpacking acres of plastic from a new purchase to get to the contents.
科学家们已致力于从人产生的垃圾中生产塑料，藻类以及奶类，所以当一家公司正试图利用二氧化碳生产塑料便不足为奇。
Scientists are already working on making plastic from human waste, algae and milk, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that one company is working on making it from carbon dioxide.
它们都不提供塑料杯，而是提供金属杯和玻璃杯——维也纳人希望他们的晚餐质量能够像即将开始的音乐会一样好。
There are no plastic cups, just real plates and glasses -- Vienna wants the quality of the dining experience to be as good as the music that's about to begin.
投球机器人投出泡沫塑料球的速度可达25英里/小时，但石川更希望将速度提高至93英里/小时，使其可以发出低于常速的投球，如曲线球和滑球。
The pitching robot throws a plastic foam ball at 25 miles per hour, but Ishikawa is hoping to increase the speed to 93 mph and make it able to throw off-speed pitches like curves and sliders.
机器人把药物剂量放在一个细细的塑料圈内。该塑料圈带有条形码，里面捆着病人12小时内服用的所有药物。
Machines assemble doses onto a thin plastic ring that contains all the medications for a patient for a 12-hour period, which is bar-coded.
检方称这伙人最终决定将砖块裹在塑料袋内，并以此袭击身患老年痴呆的受害人。
Prosecutors say they settled on attacking the victim, who suffers from dementia, with bricks wrapped in plastic bags.
在《阿波罗太空人：月亮上的男人》中他写到：有一个塑料袋，类似一个尖顶的帽子边缘上涂满了粘粘的东西。
In "a Man on the Moon: the Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts," he writes about a special plastic bag that resembles "a top hat with an adhesive coating on the brim."
有些人拿到了援助的帐篷，但是援助人员认为简单的塑料防水帐篷，可以从中间支起的，才是更合适的选择。
Some have been issued with tents. But relief workers reckon that simple plastic tarpaulins, suspended on poles, are a more durable option.
有些人拿到了援助的帐篷，但是援助人员认为简单的塑料防水帐篷，可以从中间支起的，才是更合适的选择。
Some have been issued with tents. But relief workers reckon that simple plastic tarpaulins, suspended on poles, are a more durable option.
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