They have also found small pieces of plastic inside the stomachs of fish like mahi-mahi.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Much like the opportunities in the word "plastic," I think it's useful to suggest that this sense of gapping a spark plug may have some relevance to our understanding of what goes on in this reading process.

就像说到“塑料“时的几种可能性“,值得一说的是，这种火花塞间隙的概念,可能与我们的阅读有关,它让我们了解到阅读过程到底是怎样的。

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so you have to make a garment out of nothing like paper bags or plastic bags.

你需要从无中创造有，比如用纸袋或者塑料袋制作出服装。

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"If you are an actress, you really don't need to go to a plastic surgeon and give a picture of a famous actor and say,'I want to look like this.'

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Cross-linked is not the right word-- that is chemically bonded with repeat units to make large molecules so that when you have a bunch of large molecules together they have certain physical properties like the solid property of the plastic that you're sitting on.

交联这个词不确切,应该是由化学键连接的,重复单位构成大分子,当许多分子聚合在一起后,它们就会具有某种物理特性,就像你们正坐着的,塑料一样,具有固体特性

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That creates all sorts of social consequences that we'll talk about sustainability, with shipping water long distances, all the plastic involved, people's distrust of public water systems that's unfounded, and things like that are very interesting and have big public health consequences.

这就产生了很多社会问题,比如我们将要谈到的饮水污染问题,饮用水在长途运输的过程中,会受到各种塑料污染,还有人们对公用自来水系统,毫无理由地不信任,类似这些现象都很有趣,而且会导致重大的公共健康后果

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