A lump of graphite or a diamond will sit happily on a laboratory bench without bursting into flames, or even rusting, and is impervious to the action of water.

一块石墨或是一颗钻石能很悠然自得地躺在实验台上而不会被灼烧成火焰或被锈化，并且由于其不透水性，它是不会和水发生反应的。

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Indeed, in a globalized world, viruses are impervious to lines drawn on maps. That fact ought to make us ill at ease.

的确在全球化的世界里地图上的国界线对于病毒来说没有任何意义。这个事实应该让我们局促不安了。

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By replacing plants with impervious surfaces, cities trap heat, and create a phenomenon known as the urban heat island.

城市中因为缺少植物，地表使用了不挥发水分的材料，所以热量无法散掉，造成了城市热岛现象。

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The boundary is impervious to transfer of heat like a thermos Anything that happens inside of the thermos is an adiabatic change because the thermos has no connection in terms of energy to the outside world.

边界不能传递热量,像热水瓶一样,热水瓶里发生的任何事,都是绝热变化,因为热水瓶与外部世界,没有能量方面的联系。

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The strain is impervious to a wide array of first and second-line drugs.

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Baron Cohen and his film's distributor, Universal Pictures, have meanwhile been impervious to a flood of lawsuits that have emerged from angry individuals who appeared in the film thanks to a team of legal heavyweights, a carefully constructed legal framework and a rule that all people who appeared in the film sign consent forms.

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The impervious Kallis produced a typically chanceless innings, consuming 290 deliveries featuring 13 boundaries and two sixes, while Amla provided more than adequate support, adding 11 boundaries on the way to his eighth Test match hundred.

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