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弄到一个常见单词有不常见用法的句子，特意跑过来发。不知道这个帖子以后还会发什么样的句子，先把标题空在这儿。

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But here's the RUB: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is delusional if he believes that capturing carbon dioxide from coal plants and oil-sands operations and storing it underground is going to have a MATERIAL impact on reducing greenhouse-gases over the next decade, let alone the next two decades.

material: adj important; essential; relevant
rub: noun (usu. the rub) a difficulty, esp. one of central importance in a situation

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这个算笑话，或者绕口令？

You can open the door if you have a key; if you do not have a key, the only way you can get one is to open the door. The corollary: if you get a key, we will change the locks.

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in the later 19th century, except for missionaries still able to be moved by Chinese poverty or the ravages of opium addiction, China was a political problem that was far away and out of mind to most Europeans.