The ring was only plated (with gold).

那只戒指不过是镀金的。

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And dentists, you will note, don't buy gold-plated toilet seats and fill swimming pools with champagne.

而你会注意到牙医们并不买镀金的座便器、并不用香槟注满泳池。

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The Broad Art Foundation acquired "Judgement Day", a giant gold-plated cabinet containing lab diamonds.

布劳德艺术基金会购得《审判日》，一个装有人造宝石的巨大的镀金柜子。

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The gold medals are mostly silver. But each is plated with six grams of gold.

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Some Arab Sheikh just paid one hundred million pounds for that apartment-- that penthouse apartment-- in that building and the same Sheikh is ordering a Airbus for his-- one of these big Airbus airplanes-- for his personal plane and he's having it plated with gold leaf.

某位阿拉伯的酋长花了一亿英镑,买了那套公寓里的顶层套间,这个酋长还订了架空客,就是那种大型空客,作为私人飞机,还镀上了金叶子

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So yeah, they'll sell items just like gold-plated iPhones, et cetera, things like that.

所以，他们会卖，比如镀金的苹果手机，等等。

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Peter and is traditionally made of gold, was instead forged in silver and plated in gold.

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In my new novel "Tiger Rag, " Charles "Buddy" Bolden (a fictionalized version of the jazz pioneer) plays the trumpet's precursor, the cornet, which I describe on page two: the carefully calibrated valves, the mouthpiece, the bell triple-silver-plated on the outside, gold-plated on the inside, the finger pieces of inlaid pearl.

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The Fisherman's Ring bestowed upon him as an emblem of his authority was gold-plated silver, rather than the traditional solid gold.

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