Glass, which has been made since the time of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, is little more than a mixture of sand, soda ash and lime.

自从美索不达米亚和埃及时代以来，玻璃就已经被制造出来了，它只不过是沙子、苏打灰和石灰的混合物。

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This time he left some cigarette ash in one of our drawers.

这一次他留下来一些烟灰在我们的橱柜上。

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But the flight to Shanghai alone would have taken Mouazzen about 11 hours, and besides, most European airports were shut down at the time because of the volcanic ash cloud.

但哪怕穆阿仁乘飞机赶到上海，也得需要大约11个小时。更何况，由于冰岛火山喷发，大部分欧洲机场都已关闭。

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The disruption has affected hundreds of thousands of travellers since Wednesday when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month, hurling a plume of ash 11km (seven miles) into the atmosphere.

BBC: Volcanic ash: Flight chaos to continue into weekend

The sulphur and ash Iceland is pumping out is going to cool the world for a fair chunk of time.

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