So the roots suck up water and minerals from the ground, and the stem carries it to the leaves and other parts of the plant, "Alice said."

“所以，根从地下吸收水和矿物质，然后茎把它们传给叶子和植物的其他部分，”爱丽丝说。

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People suck up clean water to make products.

人们抽取干净的水来制造产品。

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The secret is hydrogels, powerfully absorbent polymers that can suck up hundreds of times their weight in water.

秘密就在于水凝胶，强烈地吸收超过其重量几百倍的水的聚合物。

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Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).

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Some of the abuses have long been obvious: California's farmers suck up 85% of the state's water at subsidised rates and then grow thirsty crops such as cotton in the desert.

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