They are switches that enable one electric current to control the passage of another.

它们以开关的方式工作，使得一个通路中的电流可以控制另一通路中的电流。

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Much nicer to have a human being with you in bed than one electric blanket believe me.

所以床上有个人一起睡,比电热毯好多了，相信我。

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Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop.

同样地，如果你真的想节省时间，你不要用电动搅拌机做蛋糕，你可以在商店买一个。

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One way to raise the average fuel economy is to increase the number of electric cars on the road.

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My aunt and I decided to buy a new electric refrigerator with the money I had sent her from California; it was to be the first one in the family.

我阿姨和我决定用我在加州给她寄的钱,买一个新的电冰箱;,家里的第一个电冰箱。

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Other work now began. This work would make the dam into one of the largest producers of electric power ever built.

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So Ms Ma has learned to adapt by cooking with only one electric pot.

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Take a 20 kilometers-per-liter hybrid, which is a small car with two engines--one gasoline, one electric--that work in collaboration.

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During the period that Enron gained the west coast electricity markets five years ago, it owned only one electric company, Portland General Electric.

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