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单词 barnacle
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  • Barnacles formed in clusters, stopping the speed, and sea-worms bored through the planking.
  • Nearly every rock has its crust of barnacles and clumps of mussels.
  • O, the barnacles that cling to your keel in such waters!
  • Ships that go around the world accumulate many barnacles, but barnacles as a help to the navigator are an iridescent dream.
  • The barnacles interfere greatly with the speed of a vessel, and in a cruiser speed is of prime importance.

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Osmolarity was measured for solutions in which ion substitutions were made to be cer tain it equaled that of normalbarnaclesaline.
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Adaptation in the input 0output relation of the synapse made by the barnacle's photoreceptor.
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Westerkamp's journey into the inner world of the barnacles validates the exploration of her own inner world, and ultimately that of the listener.
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Interference competition for attachment space on the rocky substrate is usually intense among species of algae as well as between sessile filter-feeding invertebrates such as mussels and barnacles.
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There are increasing stocks ofbarnacleand whitefront geese, but we never seem to find long-term answers to the problems.
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Shipbuilding is still bumping along with the barnacles scraping the bottom.
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In the busy time their vessels have barely time to turn round in port, and have to be sent to sea often covered barnacles.
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Fourthly, a 10-yearly review would reassure people that, as time elapsed, no barnacles would gather on the bottom of the boat.
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It can only benefit the pirates and the barnacles who contribute no design or technical input of their own.
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I find that in running a business successfully it is essential to cut the barnacles off the bottom.
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A 10-yearly review would make sure that the bottom of the old boat got scraped and that there were no barnacles.
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Exactly the same procedure ought to be adopted withbarnacleand white-fronted geese.
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Barnacleand white-fronted geese are listed in annex 1 of the directive on the conservation of wild birds.
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One morning, a flock ofbarnaclegeese flew over me.
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Could he tell us what barnacles he had in mind and which he proposed to get rid of?
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