It's a piece of water-based folklore to rival st Swithin's 40-day hypothesis, but when a hosepipe ban is enforced it usually starts raining.

有一个关于水的民间传说，与St St within的40天理论相似，当软管使用的禁令生效时，通常天就开始下雨了。

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There is a glass of water, three beans, a cold boiled potato and a small piece of burned meat.

有一杯水，三颗豆子，一个冷煮土豆和一小块烧焦的肉。

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At the beginning of the concert, Tan Dun played a piece of music with water.

在音乐会的开始，谭盾用水演奏了一段音乐。

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My hands shook as I put a drop of water on a piece of glass.

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So, the active part of the thermometer could be water. It could be alcohol, mercury, it could be a piece of metal.

那么温度计的工作部分,可以是水可以是酒精，水银，可以是一块金属。

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A piece of Jell-o has probably 99% water in it, but it has a shape.

一块果冻里可能99%都是水,但它有固定形状

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Mr Uren was taking part in a relay race in which services personnel had to run up to the inflatable pool, get in over the side and grab a piece of plastic fruit floating in or under a shallow depth of water.

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And it is exactly this that the organizers of the 2012 event hoped to emulate, with "a piece of theater on the water" -- complete with music, fireworks and special effects -- not to mention 20, 000 people on a 7-mile-long flotilla made up of 1, 000 boats.

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Our HAL was energized as soon as we tensed our arm muscles, so lifting up the tray of four 1.5kg water bottles was a piece of cake consistently throughout the demo -- we even managed it with just our pinky (see video above)!

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