The porousness of snow makes it absorb sound.

雪花的多孔性使得它能吸收声音。

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Spongy Resembling a sponge in elasticity, absorbency, or porousness.

与海绵一样有弹性、吸收性、多孔性的。

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The porousness of our borders is an open invitation to terrorists and our continuing failure to secure them will, in due course, make possible not just "mass casualties, " but possibly national calamity.

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Nearly 10 years ago, I wrote about how the weakness of check-and-balance mechanisms within the high tribunal and the porousness of the structures and procedures that govern the court allowed illicit approaches to justices.

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