In the eighteenth century, a poet named Mark Akenside wrote a long poem called the Pleasures of the Imagination, and in this poem there is the line "the great creator raised his plastic arm."

在十八世纪，一位名叫马克·阿肯·赛德的诗人写了一首长诗，叫《想象的快乐》，诗中有一句是，伟大的造物主举起了他的plastic的手臂。

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Each arm would be made of a plastic film that could be rolled out onto the surface of the moon, either by robots or by astronauts.

每一个臂状结构都由塑料薄膜造成，可被机器人或航天员铺展在月球表面。

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The phlebotomist who had been hired to stick this needle in my arm—a stout, thin-lipped woman in her mid-50s—filled three vials with blood and then handed me a small plastic cup.

我的验血师，一个50多岁的女人，抽取了三小瓶血样，然后递给我一个小塑料杯。

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That is bold. The great creator raised his plastic arm, right?

这很大胆，造物主举起了他“强有力的手“不是吗？

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In the eighteenth century, a poet named Mark Akenside wrote a long poem called The Pleasures of the Imagination, and in this poem there is the line "The great creator raised his plastic arm."

在十八世纪，一位名叫马克？阿肯赛德的诗人写了一首长诗,叫《想象的快乐》,诗中有一句是,伟大的造物主举起了他的plastic的手臂“

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So I went back to the great creator raising his plastic arm and suggested that, well, maybe after all there might be some good way of complicating the meaning of Akenside by suggesting that the modern, anachronistic meaning of "plastic" would be relevant to the sense of the poem.

所以我回想了一下,当这位伟大的创造家抬起他的塑料手臂，说，也许总有办法,能让Akenside的意思更复杂,有一个很好的例子就是,“plastic“一词古今意思的差别“,和诗歌的意境有关。

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Tiye was wearing his plastic-and-steel artificial arm under a long-sleeved white shirt and was expertly raising and lowering his beer with the shiny metal hooks of the prosthesis.

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Thanks to accelerometers, gyroscopes and buttons in odd places, users can do things such as bring up in-game sights by looking down the plastic rifle's barrel, or steady their shot by pulling the faux weapon close to their arm.

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