Crozier says the wind patterns that are pushing the volcanic dust towards Europe are expected to persist for days to come.

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You're taking the air inside of the pump and you're compressing it. You're doing it so fast that there's not enough time for heat to come out of the gas that's inside the pump towards the walls of the pump.

你把空气吸进气筒里并且压缩它,你的动作很快以至于,没有足够的时间让热量,从气筒里面跑出来,传递到气筒壁上。

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Their yell at the top of the world seems to Sal something that calls for a replacement; it calls for some other prophet to come walking ragged towards them and make them fall silent with his word.

他们在世界之巅的叫喊对Sal来说,似乎是在要求一个代替者;,需要另一个先知衣衫褴褛地朝他们走来,用他的话让他们安静。

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In the spring and summer,he says, he would expect the prevailing winds in Western Europe to come from the West or Southwest - which would mean that the ash would be pushed towards the Arctic or Siberia.

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