The twin lights, the shifting grey and the steadfast red, mastered the Water Rat and held him bound, fascinated, powerless.

变幻莫测的灰色和坚定不变的红色，这两道光芒控制住了河鼠，使他处于动弹不得，痴痴迷迷，又无能为力的状态。

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They reasoned that the water is bound to the dog by surface tension between the liquid and the hair.

他们的推理是，受到液体与毛发之间的表面张力，水一定弹回狗身上。

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Whatever mercury doesn't get bound up ends up polluting the water.

然而那些没有凝结起来的水银却污染了水。

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Hydrogen was indeed found, but it is still unclear whether it is in the form of ice, or of some other hydrogen-containing compound, such as hydrated minerals that have water bound chemically into their crystal structures.

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Water is inseparably bound up with the Arab-Israeli conflict, most obviously over who controls the Jordan river.

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The impact will not, however, be sufficiently energetic to melt the lunar soil and release any water that is bound in hydrated minerals.

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