And since the incident, the once-warm ties between Israel and Turkey have chilled.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

And since we have two bars that are together like this, once they're both loaded up with electrons there's going to be negative charges that repel, so the electrons will want to get as far away as possible, and they're on their slow way to doing that, to getting as far away from each other as possible.

因为我们有两个棒像这样在一起，一旦它们加载了电子,就会因为有负电荷而排斥，所以这些电子就会,互相离开的尽可能远，它们的这个过程很慢，离开的尽可能远。

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The vote,which has been postponed several times since 2005, is an attempt to find a lasting political solution to nearly a decade of internal conflict in the once stable West African nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03