举个例子，如果你把一根只有一端支撑的冰放在一边，没有支撑的一端会在自身的重量下变形，它的一端会变平，变形。

If you leave, for example, a bar of ice supported only at one end, the end, the unsupported end will deform under its own weight, it'll kind of flatten out at one end, get distorted, deformed.

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人工管腔内由金属支撑物或者支架支撑。

The tube is supported by a metallic support, or stent.

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斯坦的建筑大多为空心，只有少数几个支撑结构，这些支撑结构也是用他直接从一个批发商那里购买的牙签制作的。

Stan's buildings are largely hollow, with just a few structural supports - also made from the toothpicks he buys direct from a wholesaler.

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Suppose that as a kind of back-up security whenever revolution has done is-- produced so much redundancy in the brain that either half of the brain was sufficed.

假设我们有理论支撑,未来的进化-,会使大脑产生很多多余的部分,我们只需要一半大脑就足够了。

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