Wooden dance floors are designed to act like shock absorbers.

木制的舞蹈地板被设计成像是震动吸收者。

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An explosion rocked a natural-gas power plant Sunday in Middletown, Conn., sending earthquake-like shock waves miles away.

康涅狄格州米德尔敦一家天然气发电厂发生爆炸，形成如同地震一般的冲击波，影响达数英里。

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One of the latest Suggestions is that such rippling disturbances are rather like shock waves spreading out from an explosion.

最近有种看法认为，这种涟漪式交通混乱与爆炸产生的冲击波特征相仿。

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I thought we would be alone somewhere. I was in like total shock.

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So it was like a big shock to me because after five years, I thought I know the language.

所以，这对我来说，就是一个很大的打击，因为五年的学习以后，我以为我掌握这门语言了。

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The ECB's efforts have greatly reduced the possibility of a Lehman-like shock, but policymakers elsewhere still fret about the ability of the Europeans to fend off the direst outcomes, not least because they seem unable to come up with any remedies besides fiscal austerity.

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The Buddhist faith practiced by more than 90% of Thailand's population is going through something like culture shock as the country quickly modernizes alongside East Asia's other booming economies.

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At the moment, everything seems like a shock.

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