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    1. Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent is the American antelope, or pronghorn.

    1.美洲羚羊，或称叉角羚，是该年夜陆典范的草原动物。

    2. Of the millions who saw Haley's comet in 1986, how many people will live long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century.

    2. 1986年瞥见哈雷慧星的千百万人当中，有多少人可以长寿到足以目击它在二十一世纪的回回呢？

    3. Anthropologists have discovered that fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are universally reflected in facial expressions.

    3.人类学家们已经发明，惊骇，快乐，悲伤和惊讶都会行之于色，这在全人类是共通的。

    4. Because of its irritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a general antiseptic has been largely discontinued.

    4.因为苯酚对人体带有安慰性感化，它根基上已不再被看成常用的防腐剂了。

    5. In group to remain in existence, a profit-IT organization must, in the long run, produce something consumers consider useful or desirable.

    5.任何盈余构造若要糊口生活，最终都必需临盆出消耗者可用或需要的产物。

    6. The greater the population there is in a locality, the greater the need there is for water, transportation, and disposal of refuse.

    6.一其中央的生齿越多，其对水，交通和残余处理的需求就会越年夜。

    7. It is more difficult to write simply, directly, and effectively than to employ flowery but vague expressions that only obscure one's meaning.

    7.简明，直接，无力的写作难于花哨，迷糊而意义恍惚的表达。

    8. With modern offices becoming more mechanized, designers are attempting to personalize them with warmer, less severe interiors.

    8.跟着现代庖公室的日益主动化，计划师们正试图使用较为热和而不太严酷的内部装饰来使其具有亲热感。

    9. The difference between libel and slander is that libel is printed while slander is spoken.

    9.诽谤和谣言的区别在于前者是书面的，尔后者是行动的。

    10. The knee is the joints where the thigh bone meets the large bone of the lower leg.

    10.膝盖是年夜腿骨和小腿胫的连接处。

    11. Acids are chemical compounds that, in water solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red.

    11.酸是一种化合物，它在溶于水时具有激烈的气息和对金属的腐化性，并且可以使某些蓝色动物染料变红。

    12. Billie Holiday's reputation as a great jazz-blues singer rests on her ability to give emotional depth to her songs.

    12. Billie Holiday's作为一个爵士布鲁斯乐杰出歌手的名声建立在可以付与歌曲感情深度的本领。

    13. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of what is conceived to be reality.

    13.理想在素质上是对认识了的理想的一种笼统和标记化的表达。

    14. Long before children are able to speak or understand a language, they communicate through facial expressions and by IT noises.

    14.儿童在能说或能听懂说话之前，良久就会经由历程面部脸色和靠发出噪声来与人交换了。

    15. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once nothing but cacti and sagebrush could live.

    15.受现代灌溉(技能办法步伐)之赐，农作物在正本只要仙人掌和荞属科动物本领糊口生活的中央蕃昌的发展。

    16. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred the search for more accurate sundials with which to regulate them.

    16.机器计时器的生长促使人们追求更精确的日晷，以便校准机器计时器。

    17. Anthropology is a science in that anthropologists use a rigorous set of methods and techniques to document observations that can be checked by others.

    17.人类学是一门迷信，因为人类学家接纳一整套强无力的体例和技能来记实不雅观察功效，而如许记实上去的不雅观察功效是供他人核对的。

    18. Fungi are important in the process of decay, which returns ingredients to the soil, enhances soil fertility, and decomposes animal debris.

    18.真菌在腐化历程中非常重要，而腐化历程将化学物质回馈于泥土，提高其肥力，并分解动物粪便。

    19. When it is struck, a tuning fork produces an almost pure tone, retaining its pitch over a long period of time.

    19.音叉被敲击时，发作几乎纯质的调子，其音量耐久不衰。

    20. Although pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern part of the United States, they are found as far north as Ohio and Illinois.

    20.固然美洲江山桃树最会合于美国的东南部可是在北至俄亥俄州及伊利诺州也能瞥见它们。

    21. Eliminating problems by transferring the blame to others is often called scape-goating.

    21.用见怪他人的办法来处理题目每每被称为探求替罪羊。

    22. The chief foods eaten in any country depend largely on what grows best in its climate and soil.

    22.一个国家的重要食物是什么，年夜体取决于什么作物在其气候和泥土前提下发展得最好。

    23. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event's occurring is equal to the probability that it will not occur.

    23.在年夜量的尝试中，某一事变发作的几率等于它不发作的几率。

    24. Most substance contract when they freeze so that the density of a substance's solid is higher than the density of its liquid.

    24.年夜年夜都物质遇冷缩短，所以他们的密度在固态时高于液态。

    25. The mechanism by which brain cells store memories is not clearly understood.

    25.年夜脑细胞储存影象的机理并不为人年夜白。

    26. By the middle of the twentieth century, painters and sculptors in the United States had begun to exert a great worldwide influence over art.

    26.到了二十一世纪中叶，美国画家和雕塑家开始在世界范围内对艺术发作重年夜影响。

    27. In the eastern part of New Jersey lies the city of Elizabeth, a major shipping and manufacturing center.

    27.伊丽莎白市，一个重要的航运和制造业中央，坐落于新泽西州的东部。

    28. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman medical doctor in the United States, founded the New York Infirmary, an institution that has always had a completely female medical staff.

    28. Elizabeth Blackwell，美国第一个女年夜夫，创立了员工不断为女性纽约诊所。

    29. Alexander Graham Bell once told his family that he would rather be remembered as a teacher of the deaf than as the inventor of the telephone.

    29. Alexander Graham Bell曾通知家人，他更宁愿答应让先人记着他是聋子的西席，而非电话的发明者。

    30. Because its leaves remain green long after being picked, rosemary became associated with the idea of remembrance.

    31. Although apparently rigid, bones exhibit a degree of elasticity that enables the skeleton to withstand considerable impact.

    31.骨头看起来是脆硬的，但它也有一定的弹性，使得骨骼可以接受相称的打击。

    32. That xenon could not FORM chemical compounds was once believed by scientists.

    32.迷信家曾相信：氙气是不能组成化合物的。

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