Police blasted the demonstrators with water cannons.

警察用高压水炮喷射示威者。

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Shale traps gas more tightly than other rock. To extract it, the shale is blasted with huge volumes of fresh water at high pressure, a practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking".

页岩储藏气体比其他岩石更密封，要从中抽取就必须用海量淡水在高压下炸开页岩并，这种方法叫做水压致裂法。

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Guo's team had previously blasted materials with the lasers and turned them hydrophilic, meaning they attract water.

郭教授的团队早期曾使用激光来改性材料，使它们变得具有亲水性。

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Once the hole has been blasted open with hot water, a probe carrying an ultraviolet light will be lowered to sterilise its upper section.

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Hurst, however, was convinced that he had solved the mystery: when firefighters had blasted the porch with water, they had likely spread charcoal-lighter fluid from the melted container.

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Elsewhere residents on Gansevoort Street pumped water out of blackened basements while others blasted Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd in relative ease just blocks away.

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