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plant

英 [plɑːnt] 美[plænt]

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n. 工厂，车间；植物；设备；庄稼
vt. 种植；培养；栽培；安置
vi. 种植
n. (Plant)人名；(英、西、意)普兰特；(法)普朗

考试真题

Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

Three university students in Santiago, Chile, have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.

Mr.Kibara and hundreds of other farmers have been removing some of their tea bushes and planting a new kind of tea developed by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya.

All appears to be well, but the farmers who planted the bushes are worried.

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.

But when a grassy area was planted with bushes, the children got much more into fantasy play, and the social hierarchy was now based on imagination and creativity.

Donna helped the people of the village to organize an irrigation project, and she also advised them on planting corps that didn't require much water.

The 4-H girls planted trees and took care of them during the early stages of growth.

Trees and flowers have all been planted in the shopping center, making the atmosphere pleasant

They beautified it with plants.

City officials cooperated with the 4-H members in planting trees, building cooking facilities, pick-me tables, swings and public rest rooms.

A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process.

One of the student inventors, Camellia Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.

When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

Bowman cannot plant the seeds without Monsanto's consent.

This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef

He planted soybeans (大豆）sold as cattle feed.

He planted soybeans without paying for the patent

Have we really gotten to the point that planting a seed can lead to a high-stakes Supreme Court patent lawsuit?

Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do.

In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant (now closed) in Linden, N. J., the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work.

In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today.

billion coal-burning energy plant.

Dakota Gasification of North Dakota captures CO2 at a plant that converts coal into synthetic natural gas

The plant's carbon-capture technologies would serve as a pilot project for other new coal-burning plants.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

The traits that characterise him are very contradictory to the racial stereotypes that black people are aggressive and uneducated," says Ashby Plant of Florida State University.

Sting in the tail Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models

That's an unusually large drop," Plant says.

This suggests that Obama was strongly on their mind, says Plant

Over time he might become his own entity," says Plant.

All of them are manufactured in his own plant.

They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice.

Also last year, Farrant and colleagues published a detailed molecular study of another candidate, Xerophyta viscosa, a tough-as-nail South African plant with lily-like flowers, and she says that a genome is on the way.

As the plant dries, these resources take on first the properties of honey, then rubber, and finally enter a glass-like state that is the most stable state that the plant can maintain, Farrant says.

Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.

In 2018, farmers will plant the varieties with the most promise in the Ebro Delta and Europe's other two main rice-growing regions—along the Po in Italy, and France's Rhone.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson river, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.

Big serving bowls and plants can easily makes us fat.

But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

Canning is a natural extension of the planting she does.

Follow the track for the sake of plants.

He planted vegetables, fruit trees and even kept bees for honey.

If you are arriving from overseas, bring no food, animal or plant material into the country.

If you love helping the environment, plant trees or pick up litter.

It ends abruptly at 3, 000 meters, giving way to lands of low growing plants.

It gets help from other plants.

Keep to the track, where one exists, so you lessen the chance of damaging fragile plants.

Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself.

Medical research often makes use of the forests' plant and animal life, and the destruction of such species could prevent researchers from finding cures for certain diseases.

Plant fruit trees in an orchard.

Scientists find from their studies that plants can protect themselves against insects.

Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out vocs when being attacked.

Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees to sell the wood.

Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color.

Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away.

Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants.

The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors, relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.

The model T Ford was built at the piquette plant in Michigan a century ago, with the first rolling off the assembly line on september 27, 1908.

The plants get ready to fight back.

These animals consumed large amounts of vegetation, which reduced plant diversity in the park.

These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm.

Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind, and planted herself right in front of my view.

Until we don't stop climate change, many animals and plants in the world will be gone.

What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, vocs for short.

When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn't sit quietly.

You can plant a tree, make a meal with locally grown vegetables, or save power — the possibilities are endless.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

Permission to run a nuclear plant is a public trust.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

In 2006, the state went a step further, requiring that any extension of the plant’s license be subject to Vermont legislature’s approval.

When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

As a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he's trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors.

In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

The idea arose because of the perplexing behavior of the women in the plant.