His mind was like a sponge, ready to absorb anything.

他的脑子跟海绵似的，什么都能吸收。

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The sand acts like a sponge and filters the water and slows evaporation.

沙子像海绵一样过滤水，并减缓蒸发的进程。

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I was all ears and soaked every word in like a sponge.

我洗耳恭听，像海棉一样吸收了每一个字。

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Michael Jordan did fast food companies, kobe Bryant, and then you of course get all the cartoon characters like Sponge Bob and other things that over the years have been associated with a number of these products, so that--those attachments are very important. Yes?

迈克尔·乔丹为快餐店代言,还有科比·布莱恩特,当然,还有那些卡通角色,像海绵宝宝等其它角色,多年以来,它们都与,一系列产品紧密联系,所以这些联系是十分重要的,对吧

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"Teaching young people is always a joy and in Callum's case he absorbed all the knowledge like a sponge, " he added.

BBC: Boy, 14, 'youngest person' in UK to fly glider solo

Existing ultracapacitors get their extra surface area by using electrodes coated with carbon and etched to produce holes, rather like a sponge.

ECONOMIST: Electricity storage

According to scientists from a smattering of institutions, the atomic-scale chickenwire material has the ability to absorb light effectively -- much like a sponge -- over a broad range of wavelengths.

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