If that happens, slab pull could draw the oceanic crust under the continent, actually causing the Americas to move eastward toward Europe and the ocean floor to get smaller.

若果真如此，岩板拉力会将海洋地壳拖拽到大陆之下，实际上会使美洲大陆向东移动靠近欧洲，海床也会缩小。

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If the banks opt to pull the rug from under the ill-fated project, it will go into liquidation.

如果这些银行选择不再支持那项倒霉的工程，它就将破产。

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She put her hands under the leaves and began to pull and push them aside.

她把她的手放在树叶下，开始把它们推拉到一边去。

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He scored on an up-and-under, a pull-up jumper and got to the foul line to get the Knicks back in the game.

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The easing of the political worries helped yields on Italian 10-year bonds pull back to under 7%, which many analysts said is key as that level is where Greece and Portugal need to reach out for help.

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On August 13th, for example, a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman threatened a pull-out from the 1994 agreement under which North Korea agreed to suspend its nuclear-weapons programme and submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities.

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