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But another machine in the plant, which USES a laser to scan the passing material, can sort plastic by type and colour with great accuracy.

但是工厂里的另一套设备则不一样了。其利用激光对经过的材料进行扫描，按照塑料的种类和颜色进行分类，且准确率极高。

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Having trouble getting his material on the air, he purchased his "An Essay on War" from CBS and took it to public television to be broadcast on "Great American Dream Machine.

由于现场获取资料有困难，他从CBS购买了《论战争》（An Essay on War）的版权后，送往公共电视台，并在《伟大的美国造梦机》（Great American Dream Machine）节目中现场播出。

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This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

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Marjorie went to her machine and slid the material out from under the foot.

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Boies argues that Napster technology is essentially like a VCR or photocopy machine -- a tool that may be used to pirate copyrighted material but is not inherently illegal.

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Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).

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