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vt. 吃，喝13 次
The researchers first established what kinds of plant the elephants preferred either to eat or avoid when foraging freely.
研究人员首先确定了大象在自由觅食时喜欢吃或会避开哪些种类的植物。
(50) The experiment showed that elephants may well use smell to identify patches of trees that are good to eat, and secondly to assess the quality of the trees within each patch.
（50）实验表明，大象很可能利用嗅觉来识别适合取食的树丛，其次还用嗅觉来评估每片树丛中树木的质量。
“I’m excited about our progress,” says Brown, who harvests eggs for Denver-based NestFresh Eggs and is adding more cover crops that draw worms and crickets for the chickens to eat.
“我对我们取得的进展感到兴奋，”布朗说。他为总部位于丹佛的NestFresh鸡蛋公司收集鸡蛋，并且正在增种更多能吸引蠕虫和蟋蟀供鸡食用的覆盖作物。
The researchers investigated one class session’s impact on eating meat.
研究人员调查了一堂课对吃肉行为的影响。
They chose this particular behavior for three reasons, according to study co-author Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at the University of California, Riverside: students’ attitudes on the topic are variable and unstable, behavior is easily measurable, and ethics literature largely agrees that eating less meat is good because it reduces environmental harm and animal suffering.
据该研究的合著者、加州大学河滨分校的哲学家埃里克·施维茨格贝尔说，他们选择这一特定行为有三个原因：学生对这一话题的态度多变且不稳定；这种行为很容易衡量；伦理学文献大体上认同少吃肉是好的，因为这能减少环境危害和动物痛苦。
Which of the following is a reason for the researchers to study meat eating?
下列哪一项是研究人员研究吃肉行为的原因？
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The country produces only about 60 percent of the food it eats, down from almost three-quarters in the late 1980s.
英国自产的食品只占其消费量的约60%，而在20世纪80年代末这一比例接近四分之三。
He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like “children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once” rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.
他引用古典经济学巨匠阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔的话，把这种金融上的急躁形容为就像“孩子们把布丁里的李子挑出来立刻吃掉”，而不是把它们放在一边留到最后吃。
He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like “children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once” rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.
他引用古典经济学巨匠阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔的话，把这种金融上的急躁形容为就像“孩子们把布丁里的李子挑出来立刻吃掉”，而不是把它们放在一边留到最后吃。
I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.
我逐渐认识到糟糕论文的各种迹象：比如那种声称每周吃一公斤以上西兰花的人晚年患恶性贫血的可能性是吃得少的人的1.17倍的论文。
Since technology has such an insatiable appetite for eating up human jobs, this phenomenon will continue to restructure our economy in ways we cannot immediately foresee.
由于技术对吞噬人类工作有着如此贪得无厌的胃口，这一现象将继续以我们无法立即预见的方式重塑我们的经济。
Yes, new technology has been eating jobs forever, and always will.
的确，新技术一直在吞噬就业岗位，而且永远都会如此。
It’s £16.95 there — or £12.99 for a large pizza from Domino’s: I know which I’d rather eat.
那里一顿是16.95英镑——或者花12.99英镑买一个达美乐的大披萨：我知道自己更愿意吃哪个。
vi. 吃饭，吃东西8 次
Now the researchers are probing the specific effects of teaching style, teaching assistants’ eating habits and students’ video exposure.
现在，研究人员正在探究教学风格、助教的饮食习惯以及学生观看视频的情况各自产生的具体影响。
Even if families don’t sit down to eat together as frequently as before, millions of Britons will nonetheless have got a share this weekend of one of the nation’s great traditions: the Sunday roast.
即使家人们不再像从前那样经常坐下来一起吃饭，数百万英国人本周末仍将享受到这个国家的一大传统：周日烤肉。
I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.
我逐渐认识到糟糕论文的各种迹象：比如那种声称每周吃一公斤以上西兰花的人晚年患恶性贫血的可能性是吃得少的人的1.17倍的论文。
Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading has little to do with eating.
多伦多大学的心理学家发现，仅仅看几毫秒的快餐标志，就会促使我们的阅读速度加快20%，尽管阅读与吃饭几乎毫无关系。
After bills, Tony has £60 a week to spend, £40 of which goes on food, but 10 years ago he was earning £130,000 a year working in corporate communications and eating at London’s best restaurants at least twice a week.
支付各种账单后，托尼每周有60英镑可花，其中40英镑用于吃饭；但10年前，他从事企业公关工作，年薪13万英镑，每周至少在伦敦最好的餐馆吃两次饭。
He’s feeling positive, but he’ll carry on blogging — not about eating as cheaply as you can — “there are so many people in a much worse state, with barely any money to spend on food” — but eating well on a budget.
他感觉很乐观，但他会继续写博客——写的不是如何吃得尽可能便宜——“有那么多人处境比我糟糕得多，几乎没钱买吃的”——而是如何在有限的预算内吃得好。
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He’s feeling positive, but he’ll carry on blogging — not about eating as cheaply as you can — “there are so many people in a much worse state, with barely any money to spend on food” — but eating well on a budget.
他感觉很乐观，但他会继续写博客——写的不是如何吃得尽可能便宜——“有那么多人处境比我糟糕得多，几乎没钱买吃的”——而是如何在有限的预算内吃得好。
He said that manufacturers of crisps and candies could play a central role in the Change4Life campaign, the centrepiece of government efforts to boost healthy eating and fitness.
他说，薯片和糖果生产商可以在“为生活而改变”运动中发挥核心作用，该运动是政府推动健康饮食和健身工作的重点。
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Meanwhile Schwitzgebel — who had predicted no effect — will be eating his words.
与此同时，曾预测不会有效果的施维茨格贝尔将不得不收回自己的话。
But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.
但令人难堪的丑闻以及共和派左翼在近期欧洲议会选举中的受欢迎程度，迫使他收回前言、退位让贤。
You won’t be eating out a lot, but save your pennies and once every few months treat yourself to a set lunch at a good restaurant — £1.75 a week for three months gives you £21 — more than enough for a three-course lunch at Michelin-starred Arbutus.
你不会经常下馆子，但可以攒点零钱，每隔几个月犒劳自己一次，去一家好餐馆吃顿套餐午饭——每周攒1.75英镑，三个月就有21英镑——足够在米其林星级餐厅Arbutus吃一顿三道菜的午餐了。