While medical examiners have not yet released the cause of his death, Munganga wonders if it might be linked somehow to Jackson's many plastic surgeries.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

then I think absolutely plastic surgery can... maybe should be used if it's going to help with your self-confidence.

那么我觉得整形手术一定能……如果它能帮你增强自信，就应该整形。

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If you put your fingers between the plastic opening at the bottom, and here's where you gotta watch out for the spring, pull the thing apart and that's it.

如果你把手指放到,底部的缝隙中间，这里你需要小心，你剥开就会发现这个了。

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One said the Jackson family was regarded as royalty when she was growing up, but the singer's many plastic surgeries made some believe he hoped to obscure his black identity.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

This little felt thing there is just to avoid too much friction from building up with the plastic or to keep it slightly separated from the case, but that's it. That's all there was to those things called floppy disks.

这种毡制品的目的是避免,由塑料组成所产生的摩擦力,或者保持稍微的距离，这就是我们要说的,软盘的全部内容。

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It's four o'clock in the morning and the 68-year-old fisherman is dragging a plastic trunk of fish carcasses across the dock toward his boat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Now let's say that we're into polymers. We know what plastic is.

现在假设我们知道聚合物，我们就知道塑料是什么。

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These replacement joints can be made of combinations of metal alloys, plastic and ceramic, but new research shows that it might be possible to regenerate damaged joints using a patient's own stem cells.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

And talk about-- "Yeah, it's the same" hunk, of medal, and wire, and robot, and plastic, this is the same hunk, the same body.

还有，同样的一个东西，可以是金属，电线，机器或者是塑料，只要是同样的东西，就是同一肉体。

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Look it's just a piece of plastic, it doesn't know a thing.

这只是片塑料。

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It's - this picture on the bottom shows the cell stuck to plastic.

如图所示,细胞紧紧地贴在塑料片上

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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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Take the example of "plastic" again: "Oh, gee, that's a strange word," we say, so we go to the OED , we see it meant something different then, our problem is solved, and we continue.

再拿“塑料“来举例：,我们说，“哦，那是个生词“,所以我们去查牛津大学英语词典，我们发现它有些不同的意思，问题解决了，我们继续下去。

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it's this paper mend with a plastic cover and there's all these black magnetic particles here.

它是用这种纸以及一种塑料覆在上面,这里还有一些黑色磁性粒子。

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Sometimes it's a lot easier to reach into your wallet, pull out a piece of plastic and voila, there are the next several shuttle times.

都是不太方便的,也许伸进口袋，拔出一块塑料来看看，还有其他的班车时间呢。

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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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And the answer, not that there aren't puzzles about it, but the answer is roughly, "It's the very same car if it's the very same hunk of metal and plastic and wires."

而答案，虽然还存在疑问，但答案大致上是，如果是同一堆铁，塑料，电线,就是同一辆车“

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Well, it's true that it's not stuck to plastic but it is stuck to other materials The other materials that it's stuck to include other cells that surround it and this complex matrix which surrounds all of the cells in our body called extracellular matrix and I'll get to that in just a few moments.

体内的细胞不会贴在塑料片上,但是它们会和别的材料黏联在一起,这些材料包括,细胞和周围细胞间的黏联,细胞同细胞外基质的黏联,我们身体中包围在细胞周围的物质,称为细胞外基质,后面我会详细讲到

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This is a game where you get a little plastic device, it's got 15 plastic numbers on it and one hole in this little plastic board and you can move those numbers up, down, left to right, and the goal is to take what's a random assortment of tiles and arrange them in numeric order and that's one of these little things you can play sort of absentmindedly.

在这个游戏中，你会拿到一个可塑的装置，上面有15个数字和一个孔,你可以将数字上下移动，左右移动，目标就是,拿到一个随机的组合后,将其按数字顺序排列,这个你可以随便玩玩。

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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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