As China tries to graduate from the world's factory to a nation with a strong middle class, its peasants still aren't ready to make the leap.

在中国努力“从世界工厂毕业”、成为拥有强大中产阶级的国家之时，该国农村人口仍未做好实现这一跨越的准备。

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The closure of the factory dealt a lethal blow to the town.

那家工厂的关闭对这座城镇是一个致命的打击。

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Ford vowed that he would sooner burn his factory to the ground than build a single vehicle for war purposes.

福特起誓说，他宁愿把自己的工厂烧毁，也不为战争生产一辆汽车。

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A story in the Chinese news magazine Outlook warned that factory closings could lead to unrest as the economy slows.

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Fred A guy next door to you,named Fred, works in a leather factory next door.

你的邻居叫，在隔壁的皮革厂工作。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Here's an example of using a large animal by inserting the gene that you're interested in, you can make this animal into a factory for the kind of protein that you would like to make.

这就是一个通过植入你所感兴趣的,基因来利用大型动物的例子,你同样能把这些动物变为,你所需要的目标蛋白的加工厂

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Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.

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Two people were killed in Kabul on Sunday when a marble factory close to a military compound was hit by a US bomb, the official Bakhtar news agency reported.

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The company will continue to use the factory to run a recycling scheme for printer cartridges as well as to make other office technology.

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