The worms' ability to break down their everyday food also allows them to break down plastic.
蠕虫能分解日常食物，它们也能分解塑料。
It takes them hundreds of years to break down.
它们要几百年才分解。
Unfortunately, plastic doesn't just disappear. It takes centuries to break down.
不幸的是，塑料不会凭空消失，需要几个世纪才能分解。
When bread is baked (烘焙), the carbohydrates break down into black carbon and water.
面包在烤制的时候，碳水化合物会分解成黑碳和水。
Every year, over 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans, and it can take up to 500 years to break down.
每年，有超过800万吨的塑料最终进入海洋，它们需要500年的时间才能分解。
The two countries are going to meet to break down some barriers to trade between them.
这两个国家将进行会晤，以打破两国之间的一些贸易壁垒。
Old-fashioned phones matter when wireless networks break down in disasters.
当无线网络在灾难中发生故障时，老式手机显得至关重要。
Berry agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help to break down plastics in landfills.
贝里对此表示同意，并希望她团队的研究结果有朝一日能帮助分解垃圾填埋场中的塑料。
If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.
如果粮食状况持续恶化，那整个世界将以越来越快的速度崩溃。
The analysis shows that plastics, particularly those that break down fast, are contributing to the climate change.
分析表明，塑料正在导致气候变化，尤其是那些快速分解的塑料。
Damaged cells are then cleaned up and the body sends cells specially designed to break down the large muscle fiber fragments.
受损细胞随后被清理干净，并且身体会产生专门用于分解大块肌纤维碎片的细胞。
When Hehemann tested some of the genes from this bacterium, he found that, as expected, this bacterium made special enzymes to break down nori.
当Hehemann测试这种细菌的一些基因时，他发现，正如所料，这种细菌生产特殊的酶来分解紫菜。
The two species effectively team up to break down young rice plants for their nutrients, causing a plant disease known as rice seedling blight.
这两个物种有效地合作，来分解水稻的幼苗作为它们的营养来源，造成一种叫水稻立枯病的植物病害。
At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," say Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase."
在60岁左右，“肌肉真的开始分解，”一位研究衰老的研究员凯瑟琳·斯塔尔说，“也正因为如此，老年人对蛋白质的需求实际上增加了。”
She made numerous efforts to break down colour lines in public places.
她为打破公共场所的种族界限做出过许多努力。
Marriages usually break down as a result of the shortcomings of both partners.
婚姻常常因双方的缺点而破裂。
When marriages break down children are swept into the vortex of their parents' embittered emotions.
当婚姻破裂时，孩子们也被卷入父母间日益恶化的情绪漩涡中。
In 'come back', 'break down' and 'fall off', 'back', 'down' and 'off' are all adverbial particles.
在comeback、break down和falloff中，back、down和off都是副词小词。
It also means there are no moving parts to break down.
这也意味着没有活动零部件可拆卸。
She had been waiting for Simon to break down the barrier between them.
她一直在等着西蒙来破除他们之间的隔阂。
Attempts must be made to break down the barriers of fear and hostility which divide the two communities.
必须设法消除造成这两个团体不和的恐惧和敌意。
The two countries are going to meet to break down some barriers to trade between them.
这两个国家将举行会议，旨在打破它们之间的一些贸易壁垒。
There's nothing better than being lost in a story unless, of course, someone decides to break down the moment.
当然，没有什么比迷失在故事中更好的了，除非有人决定打破这个时刻。
It appears that the shell has to crack open or break down somewhat to allow the seed to soak up water.
看来，为了让种子吸收水分，种子的外壳必须裂开或破裂。
When we always stay with the same people, how can we break down the barriers which prevent us from getting to know people with different ideas?
当我们始终和相同的人待在一起，我们怎么能打破阻止我们去了解有不同想法的人的壁垒呢？
"She has a very good engineering sense to break down a problem like this and then go after it." says engineer Casey Machado.
“她有很强的工程意识，能够解决这样的问题，然后继续努力。”工程师凯西·马查多说。
The nanostructures don't break down the actual clothing because cotton and the other clothing materials are too strong to be broken down.
纳米结构不能破坏真正的衣服，因为棉花和其他衣服的材料太结实了，无法破坏。
In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.
尽管采取了这些临时措施，在许多其他国家，飙升的食品价格和蔓延的饥饿正开始破坏社会秩序。
She hopes to build bridges and break down misunderstandings between different cultures.
她希望在不同文化之间搭建桥梁，消除误解。
One big problem is: what will happen if the flying cars break down?
有一个大问题是：如果飞行汽车坏掉了会发生什么？
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