Composites such as fibreglass and carbon fibre bonded in a plastic resin are already widely used to replace metal in making, for instance, cars and aircraft.

复合材料，比如以光纤玻璃和碳纤维合成的塑料树脂，已经在车辆、飞行器等产品制造中广泛代替金属。

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But in 2008, the firm found that the 787's carbon-fibre "wingbox", the internal fuselage structure the wings attach to, was not strong enough and needed stiffening with metal spars.

但是在2008年，公司发现内部机身结构与机翼结合处的787的碳素纤维“翼盒”，强度不够并且需要金属翼梁的加固。

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One reason for the emergence of firms such as Aptera is that designing a new vehicle has become as much an exercise in software simulation as in metal (or even carbon-fibre) bashing.

之所以Aptera这样的公司出现，就是因为新车型的设计已经很大程度上变成了计算机仿真技术的运用，而不只是依赖于金属(或者是碳纤维)。

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The roof of a north Worcestershire church that has repeatedly fallen victim to metal thefts is to be replaced with fibre glass.

BBC: Metal theft hit Bromsgrove church to use fibre glass

The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.

FORBES: Elderly Woman Shuts Down Armenian Internet