You can also perform a test. Take some of the material and add enough water to it to make it seem like you are making bread.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

If we take hydrogen peroxide in the liquid state, it can break down to form water and oxygen.

如果我们有一些液态的过氧化氢，它会分解成水和氧气。

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Let's take salt, solid, and dissolve it in a bunch of liquid water.

我们把食盐晶体，溶解在一些水中。

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State officials were forced to take actions that would clean the water.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Or sometimes the Romans liked to take a big theater and fill the central part of the theater, the cavea, with water and then stage naval battles and that kind of thing.

有时候罗马人也喜欢利用大剧院,在大剧院的中心和兽笼，注满水，上演大海战之类的。

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Take off the victim's clothing. Put cool water on the body.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Take the yolks and mix them in with the sugar and water No. Sugar and flour I guess is probably what I want, sugar and water is not going to do anything interesting for me here mix them into something else.

将蛋黄取出,把他们和上糖和水,不，我猜糖和面粉才可能是我想要的，糖和水没法儿为我,变出有趣的东西来,把他们混合成别的什么东西。

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The algae take much of the oxygen from the water.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Well, they'll want to take baths and that'll use up hot water," They said.

他们要洗澡，就会用掉很多热水，她们说。

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When emergencies take place attention is often focused on immediate relief: making sure water,food, and medical treatment are available.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Let's take a look at water.

让我们看看水分子。

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The fish they take out of the water here will not be served as food.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

So, for instance, if you take a glass of water and you pour it into another glass that's shallow or tall, it won't change the amount of water you have.

比如说,你有一杯水,将水倒进另一个更浅或者更深的杯子里,含水量并未发生任何改变

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Engineers have found that wetlands, grassy fields and soil or sand filters can take in stormwater with different levels of pollution and release water with a relatively constant cleanliness.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

We take in a lot of food and water everyday, every year, and yet most of us our weight stays remarkably stable over that period of time for adults despite how much we eat and how much we drink.

日复一日年复一年,我们都摄入大量的食物和水,但我们绝大部分人的体重,在成年期都保持得很稳定,不管我们怎样大吃大喝

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Family members rush to take advantage of every precious drop before the afternoon, filling plastic jugs,oil drums, and pails with water for use by the 15 people who live in this home.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

You've got to pretty much take that chalk, and make a slurry out of it, put water, and dry it back up, put in a mold, and then you can have the chalk again, but you can't just glue it back together.

你得尽可能地收集它的碎片，把它做成粉浆，加水然后风干，放进模具，然后你就能重新得到这支粉笔，但是你不能简单地把它粘起来。

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But when the fishes are in the water they just see that the biscuit is coming and immediately it gets into the water and they too will come and take it off."

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

You take a glass of ice water and set it down.

这是液态；

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But, let's take a look and see about water.

让我们看看水分子。

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