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West says drones can be used for crop-dusting and tracking livestock.
韋斯特說無人機可用於作物除塵及家畜追蹤。
Now research shows that immigrants do much of the dusting in big cities.
現在有研究表明，來自異地的物種對大城市除塵有很大作用。
Mom would be waiting for me every afternoon, pretending to be dusting or cooking when I strode triumphantly through the front door.
媽媽每天下午都等我廻家，我意氣風發地跨入大門時，她會假裝在除塵或烹飪。

You get an image of Milton here twitching his blue mantle, his cape over his shoulder, and dusting his hands and letting us know that that's over.
從中你們可以看到一幅彌爾頓撕扯著絲巾的圖象，他的鬭篷搭在肩上，拍了拍手，好讓我們知道都結束了。
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She was intrigued to discover that maids in Italy spent a great deal of time dusting ceilings.
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Dusting off the once-proud Taurus nameplate and putting it on the slow-selling Five Hundred doesn't make things clearer.
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Alas, the pedestal and hinge 'round the back have a glossy piano black finish that will demand dusting.
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Dust is very small dry particles of earth or sand.
Dust is the very small pieces of dirt which you find inside buildings, for example, on furniture, floors, or lights.
Dust is a fine powder which consists of very small particles of a substance such as gold, wood, or coal.
When you dust something such as furniture, you remove dust from it, usually using a cloth.
If you dust something with a fine substance such as powder or if you dust a fine substance onto something, you cover it lightly with that substance.
If you say that something has bitten the dust, you are emphasizing that it no longer exists or that it has failed.
If you say that something will happen when the dust settles, you mean that a situation will be clearer after it has calmed down. If you let the dust settle before doing something, you let a situation calm down before you try to do anything else.
If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.