The drill is strong enough to bore through solid rock.

这把钻足以钻透坚固的岩石。

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Slurry shield tunnelling was recommended to bore through water supply tunnel across the Huanghe along the Middle Pipeline of South-to-North water diversion programme.

南水北调中线工程穿黄河输水隧洞推荐采用泥水加压式盾构施工。

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Seattle firm Olson Kundig Architects useddynamite, chippers and saws to bore through the huge boulders of a rockyoutcrop on a North American island to make room for this raw concrete house.

奥尔森建筑事务所来自西雅图，它使用炸药、削片机和锯子，在一座位于北美的岛屿的众多巨大石块间开辟出了空间，以此作为素混凝土住宅的基地。

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There is just time to return to the float that bore her through the parade to pose on her throne.

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But for shale gas, once the drill reaches the shale rock underground, the drill bit is turned horizontally to bore a well that stretches through the natural gas producing shale.

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Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.

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