Environmentalists are concerned that if Shell is allowed to go ahead and open up these icy seas to its oil RIGS, this untouched wilderness will be irrevocably tarnished.

环保人士担心，如果壳牌公司继续前进，在冰海上开拓石油，将无可挽回地玷污这片原始荒野。

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Let me open it What a lovely shell!

我来打开它。多么漂亮的一只贝壳！

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There is a case of an oysterlike bivalve that evolved a more and more spiraled shell until, just before extinction, the valves could barely open.

这里有个例子，一种牡蛎状双壳贝，进化出越来越趋螺旋状的外壳，直到该物种灭绝前，其外壳已经几乎打不开了。

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Playing earlier with the roof open, unseeded Suarez Navarro looked shell-shocked in the conditions as Dementieva raced to a 4-0 first-set lead on the Rod Laver Arena.

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If built as planned, Shell's two GTL plants (one scheduled to open in 2008-09 and the second in 2010-11) will have a combined daily capacity of 140, 000 barrels, as compared with Sasol's two 34, 000-barrel-a-day plants in Nigeria and in Qatar.

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Any feces on the exterior of an egg shell poses a food safety threat from potential cross-contamination if, say, a consumer cracks open an egg then proceeds to prepare a salad with those same bacteria-riddled hands.

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