Synthetic biology, as the technology that this and myriad less eye-catching advances are ushering in has been dubbed, promises much.

人造生物学则同这样或者大多数不太引人关注的被冠名并加以应用的技术一样，应当承担更多。

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I would guess that probably 30% to 50% of you do this everyday, you put a piece of plastic, a synthetic piece of plastic into your eye to improve your vision.

我猜你们有百分之三十到百分之五十的人,每天会做这样的事,将一小片塑料,合成塑料放到眼睛里,来提高自己的视力

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It works like this: thread by thread technicians apply the synthetic, polyester-based extensions to each tiny lash (up to 120 an eye) leaving clients the look of full eye-make up.

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