The money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.

筹到的钱款将用来挖井眼，再将水抽入干涸的湖中。

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The factual, serious answer is that most conferences pretend to provide an opportunity to "learn" by catching up with the status quo, and that's why they bore alpha geeks to tears.

实际上，要认真回答这个问题的话，那就是绝大多数会议都打着提供“学习”机会的幌子，实其实不过是让大家补课了解现状。 这就是为什么这些会议无聊得让alpha极客们（译注：alpha geek，顾名思义，也就是专玩alpha版走在技术潮流最前沿的人）郁闷到直想做俯卧撑！

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They observed that the clumps of roughage left behind by elephants ferrying tourists up to the fort bore a striking similarity to the raw fibre used in paper-making.

旅客可以乘坐大象前往这个港口，而二人注意到大象身后的大团粪便和造纸所用的纤维原料惊人地相似。

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"That pressure's got to go somewhere. It might be going back up the well bore,"

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And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud by night Annabel Lee chilling my Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.

这就是原因，很久以前，在海边的王国，夜里一阵冷风从云中吹落,冻僵了我的;,于是她高贵的亲戚到来了,把她从我身边带走，将她关进一座坟墓,在大海边的王国里。

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Sirius Minerals said the proceeds would help fund the drilling of up to eight extra bore holes.

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Sasaki got into a jam that first outing, giving up two singles, but then bore down to get two flyouts that preserved the Mariner win.

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The original teenage boy band put on a good show, but there was something disconcerting about the line-up of pensioners, some of whom bore witness to a misspent youth.

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