这种物质聚合形成坚硬的塑料。

The substance polymerizes to form a hard plastic.

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聚合物太阳能板不同于如聚乙烯等大多数商用塑料，其本质上是绝缘体。

Polymer solar panels differ from most commercial plastics like polythene which are essentially insulators.

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研究者们用薄膜聚合物做成了人工翅膀，用加上塑料制的血管，使它就像是一只真正的燕尾蝶。

The researchers made artificial wings from a thin film of polymer, fabricating them with plastic veins mimicking those of an actual swallowtail butterfly.

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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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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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Things like steel and polymers, or plastics, and ceramics, and of course computers which has progressed remarkably due to the work of engineers in your lifetime, until now you can carry around a cell phone, which would have been unthinkable even 30 years ago.

包括钢铁,聚合物,塑料,陶瓷,当然,计算机这个在你们的有生之年,已经取得令人瞩目的进展的发明,也得归功于工程师的工作,现在你们的手机能随身携带,而这在三十年前是不可想象的

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