Doctors in training may have to do hundreds of stitches in some cases to close the skin after an operation.

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I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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Alternatively,it might have been that Righty woke up, but Lefty doesn't wake up,doesn't survive the operation.

或者是，醒来的是小右，而小左没能熬过手术，再也没醒来。

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Newcastle signed Bolton midfielder Kevin Nolan on Friday to cover for the loss of Barton, who will have an operation on Friday, and have been linked with a move for Wigan defender Ryan Taylor.

BBC: Owen absent for up to six weeks

As soon as we can get him home to have the operation he needs we will do so.

BBC: England captain Adrian Morley ruled out of Four Nations

He was forced to miss the final Test in Sydney to have an operation.

BBC: Cricket World Cup: Ricky Ponting makes nets return