By feeling we tell what is hard from what is soft.

凭感触分辨软与硬。

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In short, hard power is preferable to soft power.

简而言之，硬实力比软实力更受欢迎。

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This method was very effective as the glass had not touched any surfaces between being soft and becoming hard, so it stayed perfectly unblemished, with a "fire finish".

这个方法非常有效，因为玻璃在从软变硬的过程中并没有触及任何物体的表面，因而在经过“火抛光”处理后能保持完美无瑕。

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The kinds of minerals in clay affect how soft or hard it is to work with.

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I would say, part of what we look at are hard quantitative factors, but probably more important than the numbers are the soft qualitative attributes.

我想,我们看重的,是一些硬性的量化因素,这可能比那些抽象的特质属性,更为重要

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I'm the heterogeneous system, soft stuff, hard stuff, liquid stuff.

我是非均匀系统，有软的物质，硬的物质，液体物质等。

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In between soft and hard, of course, lies a range of landings of various degrees of bumpiness.

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The Reef could win on soft and hard ground, which Dancing Brave, Brigadier Gerard or Nijinsky did not prove.

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Pirelli said it had taken a conservative approach to tyre choices this weekend by bringing the soft and hard compounds.

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