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.
明天是复活节。在复活节，孩子们寻找有糖果的塑料彩蛋。复活节的小兔把彩蛋藏在院子里。这些彩蛋象征着小动物们的诞生。
Tomorow is Easter. On Easter you hunt for plastic eggs with candy inside. The Easter bunny hides these eggs in your yard. The eggs symbolize baby animals being born.
我并不想界定哪些是更好的所在，因为这取决于每个人自身的情况，但是我非常确信的是，另一个塑料桃子永远不会诞生。
I don't want to define these better things, because it's up to people themselves. But I am quite sure it won't be creating another plastic peach.
于是合成塑料工业诞生，而其他化学家就开始合成相似类型的许多其他有用的塑料。
So the synthetic plastics industry was born, other chemists starting to synthesize many other useful plastics of a similar type.
于是合成塑料工业诞生，而其他化学家就开始合成相似类型的许多其他有用的塑料。
So the synthetic plastics industry was born, other chemists starting to synthesize many other useful plastics of a similar type.
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