Susan: Ryan, you're standing between a woman and a shopping trip. That's about as smart as boiling tea in a chocolate teapot.

苏珊：瑞恩，你站在女人和购物之间。跟女人争论购物可不太明智啊。

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His mother laughed, put some Elder-flowers in the tea-pot, and poured boiling water upon them.

他的母亲笑了，把一些接骨木花放进茶壶里，把开水倒在它们上面。

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Usually, if the tea is made in a teacup, boiling water should be added into the cup when half of the tea in it has been consumed; and thus the cup is kept filled and the tea retains the same bouquet.

通常，若是用茶杯泡的茶，在茶喝完一半之后就应该加开水，这样，茶杯就一直都是满的，茶的芳香也得以保留。

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For example: An Internet-jacked kettle that alerts us when the national power grid is overloaded (a prototype has been developed by U.K. engineer Chris Adams) doesn't prevent us from boiling yet another cup of tea, but it does add an extra ethical dimension to that choice.

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He is with ModerateVoters.org, based in Irvine, California, and he says the Militant Middle started growing and coalescing around a broad slogan of "Throw the bums out" long before the Tea Party even started brewing -- and now it's reached a boiling point.

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