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图片1 metal n. 金属 例句：This metal is harder than that one. 这种金属比那种硬。 metallic adj. 金属(性)的 例句：Fannie' s shovel struck against something metallic when she wasplanting flowers in the garden. 当芬妮在花园里种

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CNN 2012-02-21

President Obama`s administration says it`s more concerned with what`s in coins than who`s on them. The penny in your pocket might look like copper, but copper actually makes up less than 3 percent of a one-cent coin. And the main metal in nickels ain

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The Streaming down the Yangtze team has arrived in the city of Tongling, Anhui Province. Owing to its copper deposits, it was an important center in ancient China for bronze production. The scale of the copper industry has gradually increased and it

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Varden paused, and put away a good mouthful of whisky. Well? cried several breathless voices. Well, said Varden, Im not ashamed to say I went out of that house like an old buck-rabbit that hears the man with the gun. There was a car standing just out

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For the last two years, the Los Angeles area has seen an increasing number of metal thefts, reported Paul Moyer, co-anchor of the local 6 oclock news. Sometime before dawn Wednesday, thieves had stolen the copper wire out of six lamp posts. A day ear

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你了解自己的头发吗？

A human hair consists mainly of a protein called Keratin. It also contains some moisture and the trace metals and minerals found in the rest of the body. 人类的头发主要由一种叫角朊的蛋白质组成，并含有水分及在身体其他部分

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How the First Head Was TakenOne day the Moon, who was a woman named Kabigat, sat out in the yard making a large copper pot. The copper was still soft and pliable like clay, and the woman squatted on the ground with the heavy pot against her knees whi

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Jessica在北京学中文，她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词，就会来请教她。今天是吴琼要问的：暴露。 WQ: Jessica, 明天我要去面试，得好好打扮打扮，你帮我参谋参谋? Jessica：没

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You might not think there would be that many people in the world prepared to devote lifetimes to the study of something so inescapably low key, 你或许会认为，世界上不会有多少人愿意花毕生的心血来研究那个不起眼儿的东西