The start reaction time influences sprint result directly. Many athletes failed in sprint competition because they didn't start smoothly and their reaction time was too long.

起跑反应时直接影响短跑比赛成绩，在短跑比赛中有许多运动员由于起跑不顺利，反应时过长而导致比赛失利。

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Making the bulbs requires workers to handle mercury in either solid or liquid form because a small amount of the metal is put into each bulb to start the chemical reaction that creates light.

制造这些灯泡需要工人们直接处理固态或液态的水银，因为每个灯泡中要封入小量的该种金属用来发生化学反应以发光。

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In your personal life, your reaction to stressful situations like these might be to start Shouting, or to go hide in a corner and feel sorry for yourself for a while.

在您个人生活里，面临上述这些压力重重的情境时也许可以开始大声叫喊、或是躲到一个角落里独自难受一阵子。

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It is heated to start the reaction, and when it is complete the resins, residual acetic anhydride and acetic acid are wicked away from the wood, and the pine has become Accoya.

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One voice can start a chain reaction that changes the world.

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And would lower taxes attract businesses and people across borders, as Scots might hope, and the English might fear, at least until they start cutting in reaction?

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