Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium. White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used as nuclear fuel.

太阳一类的恒星在其核心将氢融合成氦。而白矮星则是将其曾用作核燃料的所有氢原子都燃烧殆尽的恒星。

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Unlike the Chinese test, though, the American target was in such a low orbit that any debris would quickly have fallen into the air and burned up.

然而有别于中国实验的是美国的目标卫星的飞行轨道较低，从而所产生的残骸会在落入大气层后迅速燃烧。

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Rather, it looks as though the remains of burned plants have been mixed into it deliberately.

而是好像故意将烧焦植物的残留物掺入土壤中。

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Even though the power surplus is happening in the northwest, the effect on the gas market will be felt across the country as gas that would have ended up being burned in California instead gets pushed east into Texas and up into the northeast.

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In Nicaragua things have grown worse as thousands of destitute former Contra guerrillas, many with little skill in farming, have moved into uninhabited (and theoretically protected) forests in the north, and burned them to get land.

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On the contrary, Japanese households are turning their assets back into yen, having been badly burned in their ventures into high-yielding (and highly risky) foreign bonds, while the banks have ended the trade of borrowing yen to buy dollars.

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