He says that,in the 1930s, an auto industry pioneer found soybeans made a pretty good plastic.

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plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

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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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Albeit made of plastic, the smoothness and detail were good enough that you could not only get your Kasparov on, but you might even leave it out on display afterwards.

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This is London, where not that long ago, a good show meant you got a plastic chair under a tent.

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So when I see newly divorced patients in my office, I encourage them to hold off on plastic surgery until they're in a good mental state.

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