When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

到了晚上，鸽子回到他那里，嘴里叼着一个新拧下来的橄榄叶子，挪亚就知道地上的水退了。

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practical artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy as efficiently as the real thing has long been a Holy Grail of chemistry, and researchers at MIT may have finally done it.

科学家一直在尝试在实验室中重现植物的结构和功能，最高的目标当然是人工树叶能够和真实树叶一样有效地利用阳光和水合成能量。

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Culinary historians know nothing about who first put leaf to water.

研究饮食的历史学家们也不知道到底是谁第一个把树叶泡进了水里。

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For hydration, there is water flavored with pandanus leaf, which tastes pleasantly of toasted rice, and fruit-flavored drinking vinegars, which, mixed with seltzer, are like sweet-and-sour sodas.

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