Our modern world is one in which we find our lives shaped increasingly by appurtenances of plastic and metal, concrete and glass, and-apparently too-rare earths.

我们生活的现代世界是这样一个世界，我们的生活越来越多地由塑料和金属附属物，混凝土和玻璃，尤其是稀土所塑造。

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We deal with the weather, which is something most people don’t do, as they’re cut off from the world in their glass and metal boxes.

我们直接应付天气，这是很多人一直在逃避的，他们会把自己关在玻璃和金属做的箱子里与外界隔绝。

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With the scarcity of metal toward the end of World War II, Project Habbakuk was an attempt to create aircraft carriers out of pykrete, a mixture of ice and wood pulp.

由于在二战末期金属缺乏，哈巴库克项目做了个尝试，用冰和木浆的混合物制造航空母舰。

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India is the world's biggest buyer of the precious metal.

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First, the general glut in primary metal capacity the world has 2008.

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It has it over any sort of metal in the world.

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