It works at first, but liquid silicone can 't escape the laws of gravity, resulting eventually in an unsightly droop.

起初会有效果，但液体硅胶无法逃避重力法则，最终将会导致难看的塌陷。

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This machinery is so precise that a human hair couldn't even pass between the heads and spinning platters, yet it all works in terrific speeds.

这些设备是很紧密的以至于人的头发,都不能在头和旋转的磁盘之间通过，尽管如此，它的运行速度非常快。

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and now that I'm in college, I don't really... the way that university works in the United States.

上了大学之后，我不能……按美国大学的教育体制，

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I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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This makes sense, given that Apple is supplying developers with a transit API, but we can't imagine that homegrown public transit options aren't already in the works.

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Pfizer says the trip could never have been made so quickly if a global pediatric trial hadn't already been in the works.

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That Apple doesn't have something in the works that's going to melt faces, because if it did, it wouldn't be sending in marketing chief Philip Schiller instead of Jobs.

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