Be careful—the plates are hot.
当心—盘子烫手。
这些盘子容易破损。
She broke the plates in a fit of temper.
她一气之下把盘子摔碎了。
The plates and glassware were rimmed with gold.
这些盘子和玻璃器皿都镶着金边。
The waiter whisked away the plates before we had finished.
服务员没等我们吃完就匆忙把盘子收走了。
The waitress had cleared away the plates and brought coffee.
女服务员收走盘子，端来了咖啡。
我可不可以帮你们把这些盘子拿出去？
Dad filled our plates with steaming stew and passed them around.
爸爸往我们的盘子里装满了热气腾腾的炖菜，然后把菜递给了我们。
Earth's surface consists of rigid plates that are constantly shifting and jostling one another.
地球表面由不断移动和相互碰撞的刚性板块组成。
By cutting down on food waste, we could help put food on the empty plates of some hungry children.
通过减少食物浪费，我们可以帮助把食物放到一些饥饿的孩子们的空盘子里。
It is at the boundaries between plates that most of Earth's volcanism and earthquake activities occur.
地球上大部分的火山活动和地震活动发生在板块之间的边界处。
All are slowly moving because the plates float on a denser semi-liquid mantle, the layer between the crust and Earth's core.
所有板块都在缓慢移动，因为它们漂浮在密度更大的半液态地幔上，也就是地壳和地核之间的那一层。
All are slowly moving because the plates float on a denser sem-iliquid mantle, the layer between the crust and Earth's core.
所有板块都在缓慢移动，因为它们漂浮在密度更大的半流体地幔上，也就是地壳和地核之间的那一层。
The Earth's crust is thought to be divided into huge, movable segments, called plates, which float on a soft plastic layer of rock.
人们认为地壳分成了巨大的、可移动的部分，称为板块，这些板块漂浮在柔软可塑的岩石层上。
It's called the Ring of Fire, a semicircle of violently shifting plates and volcanoes that runs along the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
这里被称为火圈带，一个由剧烈移动的板块和火山组成的半圆形区域，分布在太平洋沿岸。
Allopatric speciation can also be brought by the imperceptibly slow but colossal movements of the tectonic plates that make up Earth's surface.
构成地球表面的那些构造板块极其缓慢但剧烈的运动，也可能导致异地物种形成。
Most volcanoes that occur in the interiors of plates are believed to be produced by mantle plumes, columns of molten rock that rise from deep within the mantle.
人们认为，大多数发生在板块内部的火山爆发都是由地幔柱造成的，地幔柱是指从地幔深处涌出的熔岩柱体。
Earth's surface is not made up of a single sheet of rock that forms a crust but rather a number of "tectonic plates" that fit closely, like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
地球表面并不是由构成地壳的单块岩石构成，而是许多紧密相连的“构造板块”，像一块巨大的拼图。
Geologists therefore wondered whether the friction between the plates was being reduced by pockets of pressurized water within the fault that push the plates away from each other.
因此，地质学家们想知道，断层内部的加压水袋是否会使板块之间的摩擦力减小，从而使板块彼此远离。
Once it was understood how these plates move, it was possible to determine past movements of Earth's continents and how these slow movements have reshaped Earth's features at different times.
一旦人们了解了这些板块是如何运动的，就有可能确定过去地球上大陆的运动，以及这些缓慢的运动如何在不同时期重塑了地球的特征。
The book has 55 colour plates.
这本书有55页彩色整页插图。
These porcelain plates have rather original designs on them.
这些瓷盘的花纹很别致。
The plates were taken away by the waiter after we finished eating.
我们吃完后，盘子被服务员收走了。
After a meal, users can open the mini-program and take a picture of their empty plates.
饭后，用户可以打开小程序，拍下自己的空盘。
Users of Sina Weibo are encouraged to share photos or videos of empty plates after finishing their meals.
新浪微博鼓励用户分享餐后空盘的照片或视频。
Today, most people in Western cultures expect to eat meals with their own set of silverware, their own plates, and their own glasses.
今天，西方文化中大多数人希望用自己的一套银器、盘子和杯子吃饭。
The young man has succeeded in making millions of people form the habit of clearing their plates as part of the nation's efforts to cut down food waste.
这个年轻人已经成功使数百万人养成了光盘的习惯，这是国家减少食物浪费的举措之一。
She cleared the old plates off the table.
她清理掉桌上用过的盘子。
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