Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do.
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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.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today.
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植物
A plant is a living thing that grows in the earth and has a stem, leaves, and roots.
例句
Water each plant as often as required.
按要求經(jīng)常給每一株植物澆水。
...exotic plants.
異域植物
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播（種）；種植；栽種
When you plant a seed, plant, or young tree, you put it into the ground so that it will grow there.
例句
He says he plans to plant fruit trees and vegetables.
他說他打算種植果樹和蔬菜。
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VERB
在…種上植物（或農(nóng)作物）
When someone plants land with a particular type of plant or crop, they put plants, seeds, or young trees into the land to grow them there.
例句
They plan to plant the area with grass and trees...
他們計(jì)劃在這一地區(qū)種草植樹。
Recently much of their energy has gone into planting a large vegetable garden.
最近他們把很多精力投在種植大菜園上了。
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工廠；發(fā)電廠
A plant is a factory or a place where power is produced.
例句
...Ford's British car assembly plants...
福特公司在英國的汽車裝配廠
The plant provides forty per cent of the country's electricity.
全國總電量的40%是這家發(fā)電廠提供的。
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成套機(jī)械；成套設(shè)備；成套裝置
Plant is large machinery that is used in industrial processes.
例句
...investment in plant and equipment.
對(duì)機(jī)械設(shè)備的投資
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VERB
安放；放置；使固定
If you plant something somewhere, you put it there firmly.
例句
She planted her feet wide and bent her knees slightly.
她雙腳寬分站穩(wěn)，膝蓋微屈。
...with his enormous feet planted heavily apart.
他的大腳重重地分開站好
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VERB
藏放；埋設(shè)
To plant something such as a bomb means to hide it somewhere so that it explodes or works there.
例句
So far no one has admitted planting the bomb.
到目前為止，還沒有人承認(rèn)是自己放了炸彈。
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VERB
把（武器、毒品等）栽贓（于某人）
If something such as a weapon or drugs is planted on someone, it is put among their possessions or in their house so that they will be wrongly accused of a crime.
例句
He claimed that the drugs had been planted to incriminate him.
他聲稱毒品是有人栽贓陷害他。
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VERB
派遣；安插
If an organization plants someone somewhere, they send that person there so that they can get information or watch someone secretly.
例句
Journalists informed police who planted an undercover detective to trap Smith.
記者通知了警方，后者于是為誘捕史密斯而安插了一名臥底偵探。
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VERB
給，對(duì)著（某人一吻）
If you plant a kiss on someone, you give them a kiss.
例句
She planted a kiss on each of his leathery cheeks.
她在他粗糙的面頰上左右各吻了一下。
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灌輸（思想）
If you plant an idea in someone's mind, they begin to accept the idea without realizing that it has originally come from you and not from them.
例句
He hoped that he could plant the idea in such a way that Abramov would believe it was his own.
他希望能把這個(gè)想法注入阿布拉莫夫的頭腦，但要讓他相信這是他自己的念頭。