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“Insects that today are a minor problem may become a major problem if they can produce three or four generations in a year,” says forest ecologist John Stanturf.
森林生态学家约翰·斯坦图夫说：“如今只是小问题的昆虫，如果一年能繁殖三四代，就可能变成大问题。”
The nail hoard was discovered in 1960 in a four-metre-deep pit covered by two metres of gravel.
这批钉子于1960年在一个四米深的坑中被发现，坑上覆盖着两米厚的碎石。
Kung children as young as four will help to look after younger ones and “baby-wearing”, in which infants are carried in slings, is considered the norm.
年仅四岁的昆族儿童就会帮忙照看更小的孩子，而用背带背着婴儿的“背娃”做法被视为常态。
An infant born to a hunter-gatherer society could have more than ten caregivers — this contrasts starkly to nursery settings in the UK where regulations call for a ratio of one carer to four children aged two to three.
出生在狩猎采集社会的婴儿可能有十多位照料者——这与英国的托儿所形成了鲜明对比，英国的规定要求，对于两到三岁的儿童，照料者与儿童的比例为一比四。
One example of how artists and scientists have together rocked the senses came last month when the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performed a reworked version of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
艺术家和科学家如何共同带来感官震撼的一个例子发生在上个月：悉尼交响乐团演奏了安东尼奥·维瓦尔第《四季》的改编版。
The reworked version of The Four Seasons is mentioned to show that ____
提到《四季》的改编版是为了表明____
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Use of their gut hurt their performance on the first four tasks, as expected, and helped them on the rest.
正如预期的那样，凭直觉行事损害了他们在前四项任务中的表现，而在其余任务中则有所帮助。
They housed eight adult rats with two types of robotic rat — one social and one asocial — for four days.
他们把八只成年鼠与两种机器鼠——一种善于社交，一种不善社交——饲养在一起，为期四天。
Eight monumental curving staircases of granite with over 4,000 individually cast bronze balusters are capped by four skylight domes and two stained glass rotundas.
八座宏伟的花岗岩弧形楼梯配有4000多根单独铸造的青铜栏杆，其上方是四个天窗穹顶和两个彩色玻璃圆形大厅。
Completed in 1875, the State Department’s south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant four-story library (completed in 1876), Diplomatic Reception Room, and Secretary’s office decorated with carved wood, oriental rugs, and stenciled wall patterns. The Navy Department moved into the east wing in 1879, where elaborate wall and ceiling stenciling and marquetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.
国务院所在的南翼于1875年竣工，最先投入使用，其中有优雅的四层图书馆（1876年完工）、外交接待室以及用木雕、东方地毯和模板印花墙饰装饰的国务卿办公室。海军部于1879年迁入东翼，那里的部长办公室装饰着精美的墙面与天花板模板印花以及镶嵌地板。
In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students’ willingness to [expose] themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity.
在一系列共四项实验中，芝加哥大学和威斯康星商学院的行为科学家测试了学生为满足好奇心而让自己暴露于不愉快刺激之下的意愿。
Runners range from four years old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley’s world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.
跑步者从四岁孩童到祖父母辈都有；他们的用时从安德鲁·巴德利创下的13分48秒的世界纪录到一个小时不等。
Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.
一些国会议员正试图阻止该计划，至少十几个行业团体、四个州和三个环保团体正在联邦法院对其提出质疑。
First generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree.
第一代大学生被定义为父母都没有四年制大学学位的学生。
Most of the first-generation students (59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.
大多数第一代大学生（59.1%）获得了佩尔助学金——一种面向经济困难本科生的联邦助学金，而在父母至少一方拥有四年制学位的学生中，这一比例仅为8.6%。
There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.
在美国大多数州，成为律师只有一条路：先读一个四年制的不相关专业的本科学位，然后在美国律师协会认可的200所法学院之一攻读三年制法律学位，再花一大笔钱准备律师资格考试。
I’ve been able to do this since I was four.
我从四岁起就能做到这一点了。
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Over nearly four months, dozens of men made their way on horseback into Montana and traversed along the Yellowstone River and around Yellowstone Lake.
在近四个月的时间里，数十人骑马进入蒙大拿，沿黄石河、绕黄石湖穿行。
Half of the students in four large philosophy classes read an article on the ethics of factory-farmed meat, optionally watched an 11-minute video on the topic and joined a 50-minute discussion.
在四个大型哲学班中，一半学生阅读了一篇关于工厂化养殖肉类伦理问题的文章，可选择性地观看了一段关于该话题的11分钟视频，并参加了50分钟的讨论。
When a faculty or department grows from, say, five to 20 members within three or four years, (49) and when the new staff are predominantly young men and women fresh from postgraduate study, they largely define the norms of academic life in that faculty.
当一个学院或系在三四年内从比如说5名成员增加到20名，(49) 并且新进员工主要是刚完成研究生学业的年轻男女时，他们在很大程度上决定了该学院学术生活的规范。
In one study, participants completed a battery of eight tasks, including four that tapped reflective thinking (discerning rules, comprehending vocabulary) and four that tapped intuition and creativity (generating new products or figures of speech).
在一项研究中，参与者完成了一组共八项任务，其中四项调用反思性思维（辨别规则、理解词汇），四项调用直觉和创造力（构想新产品或修辞手法）。
In one study, participants completed a battery of eight tasks, including four that tapped reflective thinking (discerning rules, comprehending vocabulary) and four that tapped intuition and creativity (generating new products or figures of speech).
在一项研究中，参与者完成了一组共八项任务，其中四项调用反思性思维（辨别规则、理解词汇），四项调用直觉和创造力（构想新产品或修辞手法）。
“Each year the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant revenue losses to the States,” he wrote in an opinion joined by four other justices.
他在一份得到另外四位大法官附议的意见书中写道：“实体存在规则一年比一年更加脱离经济现实，并给各州造成了巨大的收入损失。”
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In Arizona v. United States, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona’s controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.
在“亚利桑那州诉美国”一案中，多数法官推翻了亚利桑那州一项颇具争议的计划中四项受到质疑的条款中的三项，该计划旨在让州和地方警察执行联邦移民法。
After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top positions — no matter how much “soft pressure” is put upon them.
毕竟，四十年来的证据已经表明，无论对欧洲和美国的公司施加多大的“软压力”，它们都在回避按照能力录用女性并将其提拔到高层职位。
Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2 000 languages.
格雷和他的同事通过考察四个语系谱系对这两种理论进行了检验，这四个语系共涵盖了2000多种语言。
No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr. Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.
没有哪个学科像人文学科这样热衷于专业化。梅南先生指出，你可以用三年成为律师，用四年成为医生。但在人文学科获得博士学位的正常时间却是九年。毫不奇怪，多达一半的英语专业博士生在获得学位前就退学了。