Instead of making a clean break, water evaporating from treetops tugs on the remaining water molecules, with that tug extending from molecule to molecule all the way down to the roots.

从树梢蒸发的水并没有彻底地分解，而是拉住了剩下的水分子，这种拉拽作用从一个分子延伸到另一个分子，一直拉到根部。

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Two colleagues in an office somewhere in America take a water-cooler break.

NPR: Overheard at the Water Cooler (in Cube-Speak)

Freeze dates are defined as the observed period when a lake or river was completely ice-covered, and break-up dates as the last ice break-up seen before the summer open-water phase.

BBC: Ice records reveal warming trend

Second, that even if Alliance does make progress it will require the bigger parties to break their anti-water charges pledges before the policy can become reality.

BBC: NI Assembly election campaigning - state of play so far