We're familiar with polymers, plastics in our daily life; the chairs that you're sitting on are made of a kind of a plastic polymer that is basically an organic chemical that is cross-linked together.

我们应该很熟悉聚合物,比如日常生活中的塑料就是,你们坐的椅子,就是由一种塑料聚合物构成,它由基本的有机化学物质交联在一起

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I am not just saying "plastic" means "polymer," right, but nevertheless there's something of me in the interpretation.

我不只是说“plastic“的意思是“塑料“,但无论如何在解读中总是有“我“的成分。

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The great creator knew in the eighteenth century that some day plastic would mean polymer, right?

他在18世纪就知道了,哪一天“plastic“也会有“假肢“的意思？

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