Before the electrical current puts into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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She let the machine answer, and the sound of Nick's voice in the house shot through me like a spark-plug jolt.

她听任电话转到自动应答机上，尼克的说话声穿过房间，好象火花塞放出的电，把我给电了一下。

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In a diesel engine, there is no spark plug. Instead, diesel fuel is injected into the cylinder, and the heat and pressure of the compression stroke cause the fuel to ignite.

柴油发动机内没有火花塞，取而代之的是将柴油喷入发动机气缸，然后压缩冲程在高温高压下引起燃料点火。

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I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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Much like the opportunities in the word "plastic," I think it's useful to suggest that this sense of gapping a spark plug may have some relevance to our understanding of what goes on in this reading process.

就像说到“塑料“时的几种可能性“,值得一说的是，这种火花塞间隙的概念,可能与我们的阅读有关,它让我们了解到阅读过程到底是怎样的。

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Iser's understanding of gapping the spark plug is a much more bold affirmative of the imaginative powers of the reader, a much more bold process than the hesitant conservative process suggested by Gadamer.

伊瑟尔火花塞间隙的见解,更加肯定读者的能力，比葛达玛倡导的保守程序,更加大胆。

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It could be a simple spark plug change or a list of repairs, many of which might be unnecessary.

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Justin's only answer is to blow twin plumes of blue smoke through his nostrils like a gay dragon missing a spark plug.

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Although there have been refinements since then, the basic technology of the spark plug has remained the same for almost 110 years.

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