The facility is also a world-scale chemical plant, pumping out thousands of tons of polyethylene and polypropylene, the building blocks of plastic, and paraxylene, which gets turned into polyester.

这家工厂也是一座世界级规模的化工厂，将源源不断地生产成千上万吨聚乙烯、聚丙烯（塑料的基本组成部分）和二甲苯（PX，用于合成聚脂纤维）。

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It wasn't until World War I that daylight savings were realized on a grand scale.

直到第一次世界大战，人们才大规模地实现了夏令时。

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She helped the minds of her students' scale the mountain walls and reached out to the world beyond.

她帮助她学生的思想攀登山壁，接触到外面的世界。

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But it has taken on new urgency,coming one day after the World Health Organization raised its global swine flu alert to Phase 4 on the six-point scale.

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Because I think our education system, pre-college is generally not great in sort of the world scale.

因为我觉得我们的教育系统，大学之前的教育在世界范围内并不是最好的。

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Meanwhile brighter prospects loom eastwards as BP lays the groundwork for a second world-scale plant at their BP Zhuhai site in Guangdong Province, China.

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Shell foresees a gas processing plant and two side-by-side pipelines across the Andes toward Pisco, where Shell sees scope for a world-scale petrochemicals park.

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Second, a scheme to transfer direct ownership of shares in RBS and Lloyds from the state to 50 million adults on the National Insurance register probably requires the kind of massive IT project which the public sector has a history of bungling on a world-class scale.

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