He found the snake curled up under the kitchen sink where the hot-water pipe fed into the faucet and dishwasher, but it was all but inanimate, as cold and slick as a garden hose left out in the frost.

他发现它蜷缩在厨房的洗碗池下面，哪里有流经水笼头和洗碗机的热水管，尽管如此，蛇还是几乎冻僵了，就像寒冷天气中，被遗忘在田园里用来浇水的软管一样，冰冷光滑，毫无生气。

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During the cold seasons, outdoor compressed air of liquid water will freeze pipeline, cause blockage or burst pipe.

在寒冷的季节中，室外压缩空气管线中的液体水会冻结，引起管道堵塞或爆裂。

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We make steam pass through a pipe, round the outside of which cold water circulates.

我们使蒸汽通过一根管子，在管子周围有冷水循环。

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The heat exchangers and pipework required to make a 10MW plant already exist, but the 100MW facility will need a pipe that is not only 1km long (in order to reach the cold water at depth) but ten metres in diameter (in order to bring enough of that cold water to the surface).

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The seawater down there is so cold that when natural gas bubbles out of the well into the water it forms methane hydrates, which clog the uptake pipe.

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