The silicone had a memory and would return to its original shape, no matter what you did.

所用的硅胶是记忆性材料，无论你对其做了什么，都能回到原来的形状。

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Burning, producing few smoke, no melting, no poisonous gas. keeping its original shape after carbonization.

纤维燃烧时，仅产生少量烟气，不熔融、不释放毒气，且具有自灭效果，碳化后能保持原有形态；

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If a contact has yielded during the initial deflection, it will not return to its original shape when the load is removed.

如果一个触点在初始变形时即屈服，负载去除后，它将不能回复到原来的形状。

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She reshaped the olive around the stuffing, so the fruit regained its original shape.

NPR: An Unexpected Delight: Fried Olives in Italy

When the muscles relax, the bell regains its original shape.

BBC: Robotic jellyfish fuelled by hydrogen invented

Children of the current generation will be poorer for it if they never get to linger over a vast paper map and then try in vain to fold it back into its original shape.

WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes