Some mountains were formed as a result of these plates crashing into each other and forcing up the rock at the plate margins.

一些山脉是由于这些板块相互碰撞，迫使板块边缘的岩石向上移动而形成的。

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He tilted up the pot, and a glorious stream of hot rich stew gurgled into the plate.

他把锅倾斜起来，一股热腾腾的浓汤汩汩地流进了盘子。

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He cut up the meat on his plate.

他在盘子上把肉切成小块。

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Last week,U.S.President Barack Obama said there was "an almost reflexive anti-Americanism", which was stopping some countries from stepping up to the plate.

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We have a zinc plate up here, and we're going to -- in a minute I'll describe how we can probe if electrons are coming off of it.

我们有一块向上的锌板，我们将在一分钟内描述,我们是怎样探测出,是否有电子从上面射出的。

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If Microsoft wants to limit its devices to WMV-only, it's got to step up to the plate and deliver some consumer-level transcoding tools.

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