Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do.
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In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant (now closed) in Linden, N. J., the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work.
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In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today.
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植物
A plant is a living thing that grows in the earth and has a stem, leaves, and roots.
例句
Water each plant as often as required.
按要求经常给每一株植物浇水。
...exotic plants.
异域植物
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播（种）；种植；栽种
When you plant a seed, plant, or young tree, you put it into the ground so that it will grow there.
例句
He says he plans to plant fruit trees and vegetables.
他说他打算种植果树和蔬菜。
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在…种上植物（或农作物）
When someone plants land with a particular type of plant or crop, they put plants, seeds, or young trees into the land to grow them there.
例句
They plan to plant the area with grass and trees...
他们计划在这一地区种草植树。
Recently much of their energy has gone into planting a large vegetable garden.
最近他们把很多精力投在种植大菜园上了。
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工厂；发电厂
A plant is a factory or a place where power is produced.
例句
...Ford's British car assembly plants...
福特公司在英国的汽车装配厂
The plant provides forty per cent of the country's electricity.
全国总电量的40%是这家发电厂提供的。
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成套机械；成套设备；成套装置
Plant is large machinery that is used in industrial processes.
例句
...investment in plant and equipment.
对机械设备的投资
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安放；放置；使固定
If you plant something somewhere, you put it there firmly.
例句
She planted her feet wide and bent her knees slightly.
她双脚宽分站稳，膝盖微屈。
...with his enormous feet planted heavily apart.
他的大脚重重地分开站好
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藏放；埋设
To plant something such as a bomb means to hide it somewhere so that it explodes or works there.
例句
So far no one has admitted planting the bomb.
到目前为止，还没有人承认是自己放了炸弹。
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把（武器、毒品等）栽赃（于某人）
If something such as a weapon or drugs is planted on someone, it is put among their possessions or in their house so that they will be wrongly accused of a crime.
例句
He claimed that the drugs had been planted to incriminate him.
他声称毒品是有人栽赃陷害他。
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派遣；安插
If an organization plants someone somewhere, they send that person there so that they can get information or watch someone secretly.
例句
Journalists informed police who planted an undercover detective to trap Smith.
记者通知了警方，后者于是为诱捕史密斯而安插了一名卧底侦探。
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给，对着（某人一吻）
If you plant a kiss on someone, you give them a kiss.
例句
She planted a kiss on each of his leathery cheeks.
她在他粗糙的面颊上左右各吻了一下。
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灌输（思想）
If you plant an idea in someone's mind, they begin to accept the idea without realizing that it has originally come from you and not from them.
例句
He hoped that he could plant the idea in such a way that Abramov would believe it was his own.
他希望能把这个想法注入阿布拉莫夫的头脑，但要让他相信这是他自己的念头。