"Shanghai's foundations are built on soft soil, so building multistoried spaces underground would be like digging holes in a piece of bean curd," the government report said.

“上海的地基是建在软土地上的，所以在地下建造多层空间就像在一块豆腐上挖洞一样。”政府报道说。

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And digging holes to plant saplings releases greenhouse gases from the soil.

为种植小树而挖坑也会从土壤中释放温室气体。

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"I was digging holes for planting trees," recalls Li, who now has a full-time job at a dinosaur museum built at that very site.

“我当时正在挖洞种树，”李应方回忆说，今天在发现化石的原址上已经建起了一座恐龙博物馆，他也在博物馆中谋到了一份全职工作。

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Keynes argued that governments, in extremis, could boost demand by digging holes.

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Instead of digging holes in the electrodes, they are coating them with a forest of carbon nanotubes, each five nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide.

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