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By the time it reached Kasser, the papyrus—a form of paper made of dried water plants—was decaying into fragments, its message on the verge of being lost forever.

当 Kasser 教授得到了这些纸莎草抄本（纸莎草纸是一种用晒干了水分的植物制成的纸）时，它们已经腐烂成了碎片，其中的信息也已经濒临消失。

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In the current crisis, the commercial paper market has almost dried up, endangering ge capital's source of capital.

在当前的危机中，票据市场几近枯竭，这威胁了GE金融业务的资本来源。

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Just that kind of misjudgment left many companies stranded in the fall of 2008, when the commercial paper markets dried up.

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Ginkgo, inspired by the do-it-yourself ethos of Squid Labs' Saul Griffith, will sell these standardized genetic parts dried onto sheets of paper or in vials to big companies that want to make new drugs, plastics and petroleum replacements.

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Earlier this year, the vast market for commercial paper suddenly dried up, but this was not an insurmountable problem for highly rated companies, which could draw down lines of credit, previously arranged with banks, or tap the market for long-term corporate bonds.

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