That point does not remain there: a year later you will find it the size of half a lemon, then as large as a mushroom, then a soup plate.

这个点不是静止不变的：一年之后，你会发觉它有半个柠檬那么大，然后像一个蕈，然后像一个汤盘子。

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Up to now, almost all researches of the driving force source of the plate movement concentrate the strarting point at the earth interior.

到目前为止，几乎全部有关板块运动驱动力源的研究，都把着眼点集中在地球内部。

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The sinking of the Sunda Plate is to the point where coastal cities such as Jakarta, Manila and Bangkok are in the news with intractable flooding problems.

巽他板块的下沉已经达到了例如雅加达，马尼拉和曼谷这样的沿海城市的新闻报道了棘手的洪水问题的程度。

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But eventually, each atom encounters a plate at a temperature lower than its boiling point, at which point it sticks to the plate, just as water freezes when poured on to dry-ice.

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She takes her visit to the Galapagos, for example, as the starting point for an explanation of plate tectonics (the itchy movements of the various plates that comprise the earth's ever-shifting surface) that created these islands.

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Harvey, at that point 2 for 18 at the plate this year, singled to left.

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