Plastics freed us from the confines of the natural world, from the material constraints and limited supplies that had long bounded hu man activity.

塑料使我们从自然的限制中得到解放，从长期限制人类的活动的材料限制和有限的供应中得到解放。

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I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer.

正如康德劝告的那样，我从来没有把认识某人作为目的，而是将其当作对一个作家有用的创作素材。

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But in the late nineteenth century, that panoply of possibilities began to fall away with the arrival of a totally new kind of material - celluloid, the first man-made plastic.

但到了十九世纪末，那种盛况随着一种全新材料的兴起而衰落，这就是赛璐珞，第一种人工合成的塑料。

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She remembers that the man operating the device at first refused to accept her material.

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Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

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Yet this has less to do with Ms Secrest's abilities, which are considerable, and more to do with the nature of the man and the material at hand.

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The material that went into Fat Man, the plutonium bomb detonated over Nagasaki, was made at Hanford, which at its peak consisted of nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium reprocessing plants.

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There was in fact a case where Germany was seeking extradition from England of a man who had written such material on an Australian website.

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