They crack and fizzle. They " weep" out additives. They melt into sludge. All of which creates huge headaches for institutions, such as museums, trying to preserve culturally important objects.

它们会裂开并嘶嘶作响。它们会渗出添加剂。它们会融成泥。所有这些都给博物馆等试图保护具有重要文意义的物品的机构带来了巨大的麻烦。

Since this land only holds two grams of precious metal per ton of mud, mercury is needed to pull the gold from the sludge.

由于这片土地每吨泥浆只含有两克贵金属，因此需要用水银从淤泥中提取黄金。

Emergency crews and soldiers continued today to dig through the sludge and debris.

今天，紧急救援人员和士兵继续在淤泥和废墟中挖掘。

It was shocking for me to discover how little I knew about sludge.

真没想到我对淤泥的知识竟然这么贫乏。

Back at the Sau Reservoir, authorities are actually draining most of the remaining water to prevent this precious and ever scarcer resource from getting contaminated by the sludge at the bottom of this once mighty lake.

再让目光回到绍水库，当局实际上正在抽干大部分剩余的水，以防止这一珍贵而日益稀少的资源受到这个曾巨大的湖泊底部泥的染。

The kind that exists in swamps, sludge, and animal guts, so does this mean that something living, some kind of bacteria maybe also exists on Venus to produce phosphine?

这种细菌存在于沼泽、泥和动物内脏中，这是否意味着金星上可能存在某种生物、某种细菌会产生磷？

Its workers cleared the tank of tonnes of sludge, and relaid the neighbourhood's sewage pipes.

工人们清理了水箱里的数吨泥，并重新铺设了附近的水管道。

My job is to clear the pipes, and keep the sludge moving.

我的工作就是疏通管道，让泥流动。

An incinerator burns the leftover sludge at a sewage plant.

焚炉焚烧水厂的剩余工业淤渣。

43.the drain screw of fuel oil sludge tank to be changed with valve or cock.

燃油沉淀柜的排放螺杆应改为阀或旋塞。

Atoms of aluminium pieces floating in seawater bind with carbon dioxide molecules. When the water is poured off what is left is a white sludge containing a mineral rich in CO2. Scientists say aluminium could come from collected from metal waste.

漂浮在海水中的铝片原子与二氧碳分子结合在一起。当水倒掉时，剩下的就是含有大量二氧碳的白色泥。科学家表示，铝可能来自金属废料。

The Red Cross in Sri Lanka says more than 200 families are missing feared buried under mud and sludge after torrential rain sent landslide cascading over three villages in the center of the island.

据斯里兰卡红十字会表示，岛屿中部因暴雨引发泥石流，三处村庄被埋，超200户家庭恐遭泥石流淹没。

But not to the millions of South Africans who, quite inexplicably, like the salty sludge and are struggling to cope with the worst Marmite shortage since the end of apartheid.

但对数百万南非人来说却并非如此，他们莫名其妙地喜欢这种含盐的粘稠物，正努力应对自种族隔离制度结束以来最严重的马麦酱短缺。

I fumbled my way through the pitch-black, in the labyrinth of narrow passageways, and another corpse came by, two women in their finest silk saris sludging barefoot through soft mud towards the holy waters.

我在黑暗中摸索着，在迷宫般的狭窄通道中，又有一具尸体被抬了过来，两个穿着最好丝绸纱丽的女人赤着脚，趟着软泥向圣水走去。

That meant using renewables rather than fossil fuel; endeavouring to make carpet tiles out of carbohydrate polymers rather than petroleum; and recycling old-carpet sludge into pellets that could be used as backing.

这意味着公司将利用可再生能源，而不是石燃料；并将努力用碳水合物而不是石油制造小方地毯；而且还将重新利用旧地毯的沉淀物生产能够用于支持作用的小硬球。

Of course, they also absorb and store carbon – in lawns, in the bark of trees, in the sludge at the bottom of garden ponds, in soil, in leaf litter and compost.

当然，它们也吸收和储存碳——在草坪中、在树皮中、在花园池塘底部的淤泥中、在土壤中、在落叶和堆肥中。

Covering a radioactive sludge pond... I'm not filled with an overwhelming sense of confidence in that idea, but the state of California seems to be satisfied.

覆盖放射性物池… … 我对这个想法并没有什么很大的信心，但是加利福尼亚州似乎对此感到很满意。

As another example, English has multiple words that have a negative connotation and all start with a " sl" sound, like slack, slouch, and sludge.

另一个例子是，英语中有多个词的含义都是否定的，而且都以“sl”开头，比如 slack、slooch 和 slude。

Well, what if most of our beaches were starting to look like this, because our oceans were quickly being taken over by this green sludge?

那么，如果我们的海洋很快被这些绿色的淤泥占领，大部分的海滩都开始变成这样，那会怎么样呢？

A dam holding toxic sludge from an iron ore mine has burst near the town of Mariana in southeastern Brazil and gulfing villages down stream.

巴西东南部马里亚纳市附近，铁矿区突然发生废水池溃坝事故，小镇被淹没在泥石流中。