But he comes close to doing so, sounding almost desperate to stretch the semantic elastic to satisfy the doubters.

但他正一步步逼近，听起来在不顾一切的延伸语义上的弹性，以消除怀疑者的疑惑。

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I learned that love is like an elastic band that must stretch apart before it pulls you back close to one another.

爱就像根松紧带，在它将你们紧紧拉在一起前，必须先松开。

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Healthy hair is highly elastic and can stretch 20 or 30 per cent before snapping.

健康的头发非常富有弹性，可拉长20%或30%而不断。

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Heat is the enemy of any clothing with stretch or elastic.

WSJ: Ways to Care for Stretch Garments

The aim was "to provide a perspective on business and career development that lies totally outside the established MBA curriculum, confronting prejudices about creativity and providing innovative methodologies developed to channel creativity to 'stretch the walls of the elastic-sided box', that can be successfully applied to any industry, to generate momentous ideas, " according to Kevin Roberts, Saatchi and Saatchi's worldwide CEO.

CNN: Learning to be creative

This would have the immediate benefit for Telecom Italia of increasing the size of the combined firm by euro20 billion, a stretch too far even for the elastic jaws of Olivetti.

ECONOMIST: Italian telecoms