Tiles can be fixed to any surface as long as it's flat, firm and dry.

瓷砖可以固定在任何表面上，只要这些表面是平整、坚固、干燥的。

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When the weather turns cold and dry, my clothes develop a static problem.

天气变冷变干时，我的衣服就会产生静电问题。

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It should be clean and dry.

它应该是干净又干燥的。

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About seventy-six centimeters of dry snow equals the water in two and one-half centimeters of rain.

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And then they found that they could freeze-dry this preparation of virus, and freeze-drying to lower the temperature, freeze it, then extract out all the water, so you're left with a powder, basically a powdered form of the virus, that could be shipped all over the world, and then reconstituted by adding water to it.

研究者们发现可以冷冻干燥这些病毒制剂,冷冻干燥就是就是降低温度,冷冻病毒,然后提取出所有水份,然后就剩下一些粉末,这主要是粉末状的病毒,这样就能将它运往全世界,并可以通过加水来恢复病毒的活性

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Professor Cook says the tree-ring records show periods of wet and dry weather.

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The flooding of overflow office districts in low-lying areas like Metairie could raise demand for high-and-dry high-rises downtown.

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There are no cut-and-dry, one-size-fits-all answers to questions like these .

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It's not as cut-and-dry as last night's declaration that a new Retina Display-equipped iPod Touch is due in the next few weeks, but our man John Gruber just put up a lengthy post on the long-rumored CDMA iPhone for Verizon in which he says the mythical handset is codenamed "N92" and has reached "engineering verification test" (EVT) status.

ENGADGET: CDMA iPhone in engineering tests, may arrive in January, says John Gruber