32.One such novel idea is that of inserting into the chromosomesof plants discrete genes that are not a part of the plants naturalconstitution:specifically,the idea of inserting into nonleguminousplants the genes,if they can be identified and isolated,that fit theleguminous plants to be hosts for nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Hence,theintensified research on legumes.
这其中的一个新颖思想就是,在植物的染色体内注入并非是该植物自然构造一个部分的那些不相关联的因基:具体而言,这一思想是,在非豆科植物内注入这样一些基因,倘若这些基因可被辨识出来并被分离开来,而这些基因业已使豆科植物宜于充当那些具备固氮作用的细菌的寄主。由此,对豆科植物的研究日趋深入。
33.It is one of natures great ironies that the availability ofnitrogen in the soil frequently sets an upper limit on plant growtheven though the plants leaves are bathed in a sea of nitrogengas.下述情形真可谓是自然界的一个莫大讽刺:土壤中所能获得的氮肥量往往对植物的生长构成了一个上限,虽然植物的叶子被沐浴在一片氮气的海洋中。
34.Unless they succeed,the yield gains of the Green Revolutionwill be largely lost even if the genes in legumes that equip thoseplants to enter into a symbiosis with nitrogen fixers are identifiedand isolated,and even if the transfer of those gene complexes,once theyare found,becomes possible.
除非他们能取得成功,不然的话,绿色革命的产量收益将在很大程度上损失殆尽,即使豆科植物中使这些植物有条件进入到与固氮细菌共生关系的基因可被辨识出来和分离开来的话,且即使这些基因综合体,一旦被发现之后,其移植得以成为可能的话。
35.Its subjectis life-as-spectacle, for readers,diverted by itsvarious incidents,observe its hero Odysseus primarily from without;thetragic Iliad,however,presents life-as-experience:readers are asked toidentify with the mind of Achilles,whose motivations render him a notparticularly likable hero.
其主题〔若借鉴梅纳德。迈克的两个分类范畴的话〕是人生作为外部景象,因为读者的注意力被作品那形形色色的事件所分散,主要是从外部来观察其主人公奥德修斯的;然而,富于悲剧色彩的《伊利亚特》所表现的则是人生作为内心体验:读者被要求与阿基琉斯的心灵产生共鸣,而其行为动机却致使他变作一个并非特别惹人喜爱的主人公。
36.Most striking among the many asymmetries evident in an adultflatfish is eye placement: before maturity one eye migrates,so that inan adult flatfish both eyes are on the same side of the head.
在一条成年比目鱼身上显著存在的诸多不对称特征中,最为吸人注目的是眼睛的摆位:在成年之前,一只眼睛发生移动,因此在成年比目鱼身上,两只眼睛均位于头部的同一侧面。
37.The best evidence for the layered-mantle thesis is thewell-established fact that volcanic rocks found on oceanicislands,islands believed to result from mantle plumes arising from thelower mantle,are composed of material fundamentally different from thatof the midocean ridge system, whose source,most geologists contend,isthe upper mantle.
对于地幔分层论点来说,最好的证据乃这样一个确认的事实,即在那些海洋岛屿这些岛屿据信是源于由下层地幔升上来的地幔柱状溶岩流上发现的火山岩石,是由与海洋中部山脊系统的物质根本不同的物质构成的,而这一海洋中部山脊系统的成因,大多数地质学家论辩道,为上部地幔。
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Going forward 从今往后
Cheap and cheerful 物美价廉
Hot potato 棘手的问题“烫手山芋”
Close, but no cigar 几近成功
There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法
In the blink of an eye 一眨眼之间
World's longest tunnel and a strange kind of race 世界最长铁路隧道,扛羊毛袋比赛
Until I'm blue in the face 任凭你磨破嘴皮
It's on the cards 这件事十有八九会发生
Off the hook 脱身
Chelsea doctor and surfing in Australia 切尔西队医与球队和解,澳大利亚冲浪
Brexit and Hockney's art 英国脱欧公投后进展,大卫·霍克尼艺术展
Alligator takes boy and Tate Modern extension 鳄鱼拖走小男孩,泰特现代美术馆扩建完工
Barefaced 厚颜无耻的
Antibiotics and escalator etiquette 美国人过多使用抗生素,伦敦地铁扶梯礼仪
In good nick 品质好、没有损坏
White / blue-collar worker 白领,蓝领
Crash course 速成课
California wildfires and cloned animals 加利福尼亚州野火,克隆动物衰老过程正常
You're pulling my leg! 你在愚弄我!
A bitter pill to swallow 不得不吞的苦药
Test the water 试探,摸底
A recipe for disaster 后患无穷
Cyclists make Olympic history, 400-year-old shark 英国自行车运动员创英奥运历史,400岁格陵兰鲨鱼
To fall at the first hurdle 跌倒在第一关
Burn a hole in your pocket 有钱不花难受
To make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大做
Canada wildfire and NASA discovery 加拿大林火,美国国家航空航天局发现系外行星
IOC on Russian doping and hot June 奥委会就涉俄兴奋剂事件报告进展,六月高温破纪录
Indian state introduces 'fat tax' 印度一省拟征收“脂肪税”