1. Damp gunpowder will not fire.
潮湿的火药不会起火。

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2. Gunpowder was used in China as far back as the 11th century.
远在公元11世纪,中国已使用火药。

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3. After an experimental explosion, one of the experts exploded the gunpowder, an explosive.
在实验性的爆炸之后,其中一个专家引爆了火药,一种爆炸物。

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4. Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
我不要让一位仁慈的主人难过,我就得学着克制些。而且,有半年时间,这火药像沙土一样地摆在那儿并没引爆,因为没有火凑近来使它爆炸。

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5. Whoever first developed gunpowder, paper, printing and the compass were those kind of persons.
第一个发明火药,造纸术,印刷术以及指南针的人都是这种人。

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6. One day I took my gun with a supply of gunpowder and shot to go hunting.
一天,我拿着我的枪去打猎 备有所需的火药和子弹。

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7. Daniel: Gunpowder, compass, the paper making, and the printing.
丹尼尔:火药、指南针、造纸术和印刷术。

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8. Urine was used for tanning leather and in the making of saltpetre, an important component of gunpowder.
小便被用来硝制皮革及制作硝酸铵,同时也是火药的一种重要成分。

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9. As the key ingredient in gunpowder, potassium nitrate allowed humans to propel bullets from guns and, in doing so, changed the face of warfare.
作为制造黑火药的关键成分,正是硝酸钾推动子弹飞出枪膛,而且这样一来还改变了战争的面貌。

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10. Inantiquity, the Chinese used gunpowder in "fire arrows" against Mongolhordes in what may be the earliest known use of rockets in battle.
在古代,中国使用火药的制成“火箭“对付蒙古汗国”,这可能是已知最早在战斗中使用火箭的历史。

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11. For many centuries, China was a secret for European and North American people; though it was China that gave papermaking, compass, gunpowder and printing to the Mankind.
数百年来,对欧洲和北美的人来说,中国一直是个神秘的国家;尽管正是在这里为全人类发明了造纸术,指南针,火药和印刷术。

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12. Sulfur is used in many products, including cosmetics and gunpowder. In the local area, it is reported to be used to bleach sugar.
硫磺用途广泛,化妆品和火药里就含有硫磺,有报道称当地人用硫磺漂白白糖(是从中国传过去的?)

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13. Some of you may know the four great inventions of ancient China – the compass, papermaking, movable type printing press and gunpowder.
可能你们有些人知道中国古代的“四大发明”——指南针、造纸术、活字印刷和火药。

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14. All models incorporated a revolving cylinder into which gunpowder and bullets were loaded.
所有型号包括一个用于装载火药和子弹的旋转弹仓。

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15. Indigenous peoples such as the American Indians, Hawaiians, Maoris of New Zealand, the Aborigines of Australia and many other cultures were conquered by gunpowder.
土著民族,如美洲印第安人,夏威夷人,新西兰的毛利人,澳大利亚的原住民和许多其他文明都被火药征服了。

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16. The dog handlers were told they might encounter the scent of pot or gunpowder up to three times per room, sometimes marked with red paper. It was a flat-out lie—there were no target scents.
狗的主人被事先告知每个房间里面可能发现最多三次的有时候用红纸做标记的大麻和黑火药的迹象,红纸明显地放在那里没啥子目标物的气味等线索。

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17. Gunpowder, invented in pre-AD China and used for fireworks and rockets, was refined and repurposed 14 centuries later for use in the "hand cannon"--a forerunner to rifles and pistols.
火药是在公元前由中国发明,当时用在烟花和火箭上。14个世纪之后,通过精炼和改造,它用在了来复枪和手枪的前辈“大炮”之上。

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18. Milk cows and carrots, therefore, are human inventions as much as steam engines and gunpowder are.
所以说,奶牛与胡萝卜跟蒸汽机与火药一样,都是人类的发明。

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19. Gunpowder changed the rules of war.
火药改变了战争的规则。

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20. Indigenous peoples such as the American Indians, Hawaiians, Maoris of New Zealand, the Aborigines of Australia and many other cultures were conquered by gunpowder.
原著居民像美洲印第安人、夏威夷人、新西兰毛利人、澳洲原住民和很多其他文明都被火药征服了。

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21. The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback.
这个发明了指南针,火药,纸和印刷术的国度就要重返全球重要舞台。

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22. Catholics did not get back into Parliament for 224 years after the Gunpowder Plot.
自从火药阴谋以后,天主教已有224年没能重返议会。

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23. Catholics did not get back into Parliament for 224 years after the Gunpowder Plot.
自从火药阴谋以后,天主教已有224年没能重返议会。

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24. China invented gunpowder thousands of years ago.
中国几千年前发明了火药。

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25. Gunpowder is composed of sulfur, carbon, and potassium nitrate.
火药是由硫、碳和硝酸钾组成。

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26. Gunpowder was the lineal successor of the Greek fire.
火药是希腊火的直接衍生物。

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27. To burn without exploding, gunpowder must have an extra measure of charcoal.
如要燃烧时不爆炸,黑色火药中必须另加一些木炭屑。

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28. Sulphur is a constituent of gunpowder.
硫是火药的组分。

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29. For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand.
在半年的时间里,这火药象沙土一样放在那里没有出毛

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30. Gunpowder is explosive.
火药容易爆炸。

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31. The Chinese anticipated the European discovery of gunpowder.
中国人在欧洲人之前发明了火药。

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32. Gunpowder was used in China as far back as the 11th century.
远在公元11世纪, 中国已使用火药。

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33. He used gunpowder to seize both on the underdeveloped continents of Asia and Africa.
它依仗着火药的力量在落后的亚、非洲进行掠夺。

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