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Lesson 92 A Box Of Matches 第92课 一盒火柴 We need fire every day, to warm our houses, or to cook our food, or to give us light. 我们每天都需要利用火来给房间加温、烹饪、照明。 Even savage tribes use fire for such purposes

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Now if you use the right kind of atoms and you get them cold enough, something truly bizarre happens. 如果使用正确的原子，并让其足够冷却，奇迹就会发生。 It's no longer a solid, a liquid or a gas. It enters a new state of matt

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Here it comes, Cat. Paolo, go. Last you solo. The one you made. 现在来，小凯。保罗，走。最后的独舞。你们编的那个。 Well done. Okay, good. Super. So-- 太棒了。好的，很好，非常好。所以 So--Thank you. So -- three

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Up in the Sierra Madre Mountains, in a bowl-shaped valley, is the capital of Mexico. 在马德雷山脉上有一个碗形的山谷，里面坐落着墨西哥的首都， It is called Mexico City, so you dont have to learn a new name. 叫做墨西哥城

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And then, when I was in tenth grade, I went to this school, Indian Springs School, a small boarding school, 后来，在我十年级的时候，我转学了，我转到了一家名叫印第安泉的小型寄宿学校， outside of Birmingham, Alabama

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Lesson 57 Sulphur 第57课 硫 Did you ever have to take a mixture of brimstone and treacle? This mixture has not a pleasant taste, but it is a useful medicine; and if it will do us good, we should not care much whether it has a nice taste or not. 小朋

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The fumes of burning sulphur will bleach straw, silk, and other things, and make them white and clean. These fumes are also useful for killing the germs which cause fevers and other diseases. 燃烧的硫磺冒出的烟，可以漂白稻草、丝绸和

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Marketing emphasizes the allure of products associated with ancient and remote cultures to create a sense of mysticism for consumers. 营销人员强调这些和远古文化有关的产品的吸引力，来给消费者带来一种神秘的感觉。 W

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Most of our players have kept up the habits that they learned in this game. 大部分的游戏玩家保留了他们在游戏中形成的习惯 So, for the next world-saving game, 在接下来的一款拯救世界的游戏里 we decided to aim higher:

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