This is the first human to break the shackles of natural building materials.

这是人类第一次冲破天然建筑材料的束缚。

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Research had been centred on the improvement of natural building materials before synthetics were created.

合成材料造出之前，研究工作集中在改进天然建筑材料上。

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The diversity of Italy's natural resources provided Renaissance architects with a wide variety of building materials.

意大利自然资源的多样性为文艺复兴时期的建筑师们提供了各种各样的建筑材料。

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Once they can manipulate atoms--which combine to form molecules, the building blocks of our natural world--scientists can create new building blocks that produce new materials with the exact properties they desire: smaller, stronger, tougher, lighter and more resilient than what has come before.

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