The profits rise was achieved against a backdrop of falling metal prices.

利润的增长是在金属价格下降的背景下取得的。

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He hit the metal steps with a ringing crash.

他很响的一声撞在了金属台阶上。

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Surgeon Geoffrey Horne placed a metal band around the knee cap to help it knit back together.

外科医生杰弗里·霍恩在膝盖骨上放了一个金属箍以帮助其愈合。

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Some artists like this process because they can draw on the metal as easily as if they were using a writing pen.

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And there is a relationship here, and that is that the number of photons absorbed by the metal are related to the number of electrons ejected from the metal. So, in this figure here what I'm actually showing is these little sunshines, which let's say are each one individual photon.

这里有一个关系是，被金属吸收的光子,和被金属逐出的电子是相关的,所以，我展示的这个图,是这些小太阳，我们这里代指每一个独立的光子。

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Lastly, up here, is a picture of a much smaller device, this is actually an artificial heart valve that is made of plastics and metal and can replace the valve inside your heart.

最后,在上面这里,这张图片是一个相对较小的装置,这实际上是一个人工心脏瓣膜,由塑料和金属制成,可以取代人的心脏瓣膜

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Its mills discharged 23 million tons of metal a year.

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Mr Mittal always believed that the industry would come to be dominated by a handful of big firms, each producing over 100m tonnes of the metal a year.

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Liquid metal is a way of cooling the metal very quickly indeed (early methods used cooling of millions of degrees per second) and so getting your metal into a solid state before the crystals could form.

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