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These collaborations are likely to become increasingly common.
这类协作很可能会变得越来越普遍。
are less likely to suffer serious damage.
不太可能遭受严重损坏。
That makes it sound easy, and artificial, but Peters insists it is still a massive challenge. He typically takes between 10,000 and 20,000 shots to get one butterfly take-off sequence in focus. At such high shutter speeds, the depth of field is tiny, and as butterflies do not fly in a straight line they swiftly flutter out of focus. As well as thousands of attempts, it takes patience and fieldcraft to anticipate a butterfly’s likely flight-line — and catch it — in focus.
这听起来既简单又人为，但彼得斯坚称这仍是一项巨大的挑战。他通常要拍一万到两万张照片，才能得到一组对焦清晰的蝴蝶起飞序列。在如此高的快门速度下，景深非常小，而且蝴蝶并不沿直线飞行，很快就会扑腾着飞出焦点。除了成千上万次的尝试，还需要耐心和野外经验来预判蝴蝶可能的飞行路线——并在焦点内捕捉到它。
Researchers analysed the frequency and impact of gaps greater than 2 seconds during conversations, including an overview of previous studies which indicate that the fear of awkward silences can be so extreme that people avoid talking to strangers, even though doing so is likely to be an enjoyable experience.
研究人员分析了谈话中超过2秒的停顿出现的频率及其影响，其中包括对以往研究的综述，这些研究表明，人们对尴尬沉默的恐惧可能极其强烈，以至于会避免与陌生人交谈，尽管与陌生人交谈很可能是一种愉快的经历。
Long gaps between strangers are likely to be followed by a change in topic.
陌生人之间的长时间停顿之后，往往会转换话题。
The likely explanation is that the withdrawal was rushed, and they didn’t want the local Caledonians getting their hands on 10 tons of weapon-grade iron.
可能的解释是，撤退十分仓促，而他们不想让当地的喀里多尼亚人得到这10吨可用于制造武器的铁。
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This abrupt shift to an “intensive mothering narrative”, which suggests that mothers should manage childcare alone, was likely to have been harmful.
这种向“密集母职叙事”的突然转变——即认为母亲应独自承担育儿工作——很可能是有害的。
Students whose extracurricular activity has benefited their community are likely to win a scholarship.
课外活动使所在社区受益的学生很可能获得奖学金。
The size or regularity of markets can vary from season to season, depending on the area’s agricultural calendar, and you’re likely to find different produce on sale at different times of the year.
市场的规模或举办频率会随季节而变化，这取决于当地的农事日历，而且你很可能在一年中的不同时间发现不同的农产品在出售。
Compared with Castle, Taylor is more likely to support ____
与卡斯尔相比，泰勒更可能支持____
It comes at a time when authors are already worried about the consequences of the proposed merger between PRH and another big publisher, Simon & Schuster — the reduction in the number of unaligned UK publishers is likely to lead to fewer bidding wars, lower advances, and more conformity in terms of what is published.
此事发生之时，作者们本已在担忧企鹅兰登书屋与另一家大型出版商西蒙与舒斯特拟议合并的后果——英国独立出版商数量的减少很可能导致竞价战减少、预付稿酬降低，以及出版内容更加趋同。
Teenagers were more likely than younger children or adults to report that they did things like unselfishly help a friend.
与年龄更小的孩子或成年人相比，青少年更有可能报告自己做过诸如无私帮助朋友之类的事情。
The teenagers who were more rebellious were also more likely to help others.
更叛逆的青少年也更有可能帮助他人。
are likely to go beyond public expectations.
很可能超出公众的预期
are likely to buy climate-friendly eggs.
很可能会购买气候友好型鸡蛋
Exercising with others “can keep you accountable and make it more fun, so you’re more likely to do it again,” Jackovitz says.
贾科维茨说，和别人一起锻炼“可以让你有责任感，也让锻炼更有趣，所以你更有可能坚持下去”。
In fact, creative problem-solving skills are incredibly useful in daily life, with which you’re more likely to be able to find a solution when problem arises.
事实上，创造性解决问题的能力在日常生活中非常有用，有了这种能力，你在遇到问题时就更有可能找到解决办法。
You’re more likely to be heard if you can connect your disagreement to a higher purpose.
如果你能把你的反对意见与一个更高的目标联系起来，你的意见就更有可能被听取。
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很可能的
Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rule that the law violates the constitutional guarantee of “equal protection”.
由于加州的这项法律适用于所有董事会，即使是那些以往不存在歧视的董事会，法院很可能会裁定该法律违反了宪法对“平等保护”的保障。
France’s planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that will prove burdensome and costly.
法国计划征收的这项税是一个明确的警告：除非能在改革国际税收体系上达成广泛共识，否则其他国家很可能会效仿，美国公司将面临来自数十个国家的一连串不同税收，这将带来沉重的负担和高昂的成本。
While eye contact may be a sign of connection or trust in friendly situations, it’s more likely to be associated with dominance or intimidation in adversarial situations.
在友好的情境中，眼神交流可能是一种联结或信任的信号，而在敌对的情境中，它更可能与支配或威吓联系在一起。
Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than the asocial one.
在各18次试验中，活老鼠释放社交型机器鼠的可能性平均比释放非社交型机器鼠高出52%。
The new ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) is likely to be a big issue in next year’s mayoral election.
新设立的超低排放区（Ulez）很可能会成为明年市长选举中的一个大问题。
Who are most likely to welcome the Supreme Court ruling?
谁最有可能欢迎最高法院的这项裁决？
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。
Unfortunately, the long-term costs of using simple quantitative metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great.
不幸的是，用简单的量化指标来评估研究人员价值的长期代价可能相当大。
Today's farm laborers, while still predominantly born in Mexico, are more likely to be settled rather than migrating and more likely to be married than single.
如今的农场劳工虽然仍以墨西哥出生者为主，但他们更可能是定居者而非流动者，而且已婚的可能性高于单身。
Today's farm laborers, while still predominantly born in Mexico, are more likely to be settled rather than migrating and more likely to be married than single.
如今的农场劳工虽然仍以墨西哥出生者为主，但他们更可能是定居者而非流动者，而且已婚的可能性高于单身。
In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to [predict] how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to [choose] to see such an image.
在最后一项实验中，被鼓励预测自己在看到一张令人不快的图片后会有何感受的参与者，选择观看此类图片的可能性更小。
But a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.
但电池储能容量的提升，正使可再生能源全天候持续供电变得更有可能。
People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come [down] with a cold, and the researchers [calculated] that the stress-reducing effects of hugging [explained] about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.
感知到更多社会支持的人患{{8}}感冒的可能性更小，研究人员{{9}}，拥抱的减压作用{{10}}了这一有益效果的约32%。
As the international education market expands, the recent slowdown in the number of international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is likely to continue, especially if there are no effective strategic policies to prevent such slippage.
随着国际教育市场的扩大，近来在主要英语国家学习的国际学生人数增长放缓的情况可能会持续下去，尤其是在没有有效的战略政策来防止这种下滑的情况下。
As Moritz puts it, how often are federal dollars building homes that are likely to be lost to a wildfire?
正如莫里茨所说，联邦资金有多少次是在建造很可能毁于野火的房屋？
A young man can [decide on] a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to [arrange] the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.
年轻男子可以自己选定一位合适的配偶，然后请父母安排婚事商谈；也可能由男方父母来选择配偶，孩子在选择中几乎没有发言权。
A designer is most likely to be rejected by CFW for ____
设计师最有可能因____而被哥本哈根时装周拒之门外。
At the next election none of the big parties seem likely to endorse this sentiment.
在下一次大选中，似乎没有一个大党可能支持这种情感。
To find out, the researchers controlled for various [factors] that might make firms more likely to invest — like size, industry, and sales — and for indicators that a place was [desirable] to live in, like growth in wages or population.
为了弄清楚这一点，研究人员控制了可能使公司更倾向于投资的各种{{10}}——如规模、行业和销售额——以及表明一个地方{{11}}居住的指标，如工资或人口的增长。
The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors [attribute] to “less codified decision making process” and the possible presence of “younger and less [experienced] managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment.”
快乐与投资之间的相关性在较年轻的公司中尤为明显，作者将此{{13}}于“不那么成文化的决策过程”以及可能存在的“更年轻、更缺乏{{14}}、更容易受情绪影响的管理者”。
Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.
调查发现，与年长者相比，刚刚踏上人生道路的年轻人更有可能在工作中优先考虑个人成就感，更有可能相信定期换工作最能推进自己的事业，更喜欢公共服务更多、生活节奏更快的社区，更认同夫妻在结婚或生育之前应当经济上有保障，并坚持认为父母双方都在外工作对孩子最为有利。
Those things might be social, sporting, creative or completely random (dancing around the living room, anyone?) — it doesn’t matter, so long as they’re enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you’re on a tight budget.
这些事情可能是社交的、运动的、创造性的，或者完全随性的（有人想在客厅里跳舞吗？）——这都无所谓，只要它们令人愉快，并且不太可能带来负面影响，比如饮酒过量，或者在手头拮据时疯狂购物。
He agreed to join because he “found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact.
他同意加入，是因为他“认为设立该委员会背后的远见新颖、独特，而且可能产生持久的影响。
This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.
她认为，同样是道德目标的缺失，正在伤害新闻国际这样的公司，使其更有可能迷失方向，就像它在大范围非法窃听电话事件中那样。
Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfils the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.
我们是在研读那篇文本，并试图以满足某门课程要求的方式作出回应吗？是单纯为了消遣而阅读吗？还是为了获取信息而略读？在火车上或床上阅读的方式很可能与在研讨室里阅读大不相同。
In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.
实际上，你会努力重构任何一个句子、意象或指涉可能具有的意义或效果：这些可能正是作者所意图的。
Strangers are inherently [unfamiliar] to us, so we are more likely to feel [anxious] when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances.
陌生人对我们来说天生就是不熟悉的，因此与朋友和熟人相比，我们在和陌生人交流时更容易感到焦虑。
According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home?
根据达马斯克的说法，谁在家里可能最快乐？
But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them.
但由于这类学生如果在高等教育中取得成功，最有可能在经济上实现提升，因此几十年来各高校一直在努力招收更多这样的学生。
But if your work is your “passion,” you’ll be more likely to devote yourself to it, even if that means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bed.
但如果工作是你的“激情”所在，你就更可能全身心投入其中，哪怕这意味着回家吃完晚饭后，在孩子上床睡觉很久以后还在工作。
For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women.
例如，较胖的女性比瘦的女性更不容易缺钙。
[For example], he theorised that a judge [fearful] of appearing too soft [on] crime might be more likely to send someone to prison [if] he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.
例如，他提出理论认为，一位害怕显得对犯罪过于手软的法官，如果当天已经对另外五六名被告只判处了强制社区服务，那么他就更有可能把下一个人送进监狱。
By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy.
通过观察人们在网上搜索什么、点击什么、说什么，公司可以把“行为定向”广告投向那些最有可能购买的人。
This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad.
从这种长远视角看，对人类前景的悲观看法似乎更可能只是一时的潮流。
Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.
科学家发现，尽管我们容易仓促地反应过度，但如果我们花点时间想一想自己可能会作何反应，就能减少甚至消除那些快速的、本能的反应所带来的负面影响。
If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants, we can help screeners understand their biases — or hire outside screeners.
如果我们知道女性招聘筛选人员更有可能拒绝有魅力的女性求职者，我们就可以帮助筛选人员认识到自己的偏见——或者聘请外部筛选人员。
That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court's decisions will be [accepted] as impartial judgments.
这类活动使得最高法院的判决更不容易被当作公正的裁决而为人接受。
That would make their rulings more likely to be seen as separate from politics and, [as a result], convincing as law.
这会使他们的裁决更有可能被视为与政治无关，从而作为法律更具说服力。
And ultimately, it is likely to reshape our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years.
最终，它很可能会在未来许多年里重塑我们的政治、文化和社会特质。
Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate.
许多研究发现，来自发展中国家的受过良好教育的人尤其倾向于移居国外。
As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.
对于一个迄今为止由古斯塔夫·马勒和皮埃尔·布列兹这样的音乐家执掌的乐团而言，用这样的话来形容它的下一任音乐总监，至少在部分《纽约时报》读者看来，恐怕算不上什么褒奖。
are less likely to be satisfied with their life.
不太可能对生活感到满意。
The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age of 70.
离开董事会最可能的原因是年龄，因此研究人员把注意力集中在70岁以下董事的那些“意外”离职上。
The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform worse.
公司在联邦集体诉讼中被列为被告的可能性也会增加，股票表现也可能更差。
According to the researchers from Ohio University, after an outside director's surprise departure, the firm is likely to ____
根据俄亥俄大学研究人员的说法，外部董事意外离职后，公司很可能____
poor countries are more likely to get funds.
贫穷国家更有可能获得资金。
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That will likely take increased federal funding for research independent of the tech giants.
这可能需要增加联邦政府对独立于科技巨头的研究的资助。
Despite success stories like van Oosten’s, preservation of plastics will likely get harder.
尽管有范·奥斯滕这样的成功案例，塑料的保存可能会变得越来越难。
That’s likely because the rural poor are using the money as makeshift insurance policies against inclement weather, Ferraro says.
费拉罗说，这很可能是因为农村贫困人口把这笔钱当作应对恶劣天气的临时保险。
And anything that raises GPAs will likely make students — who, at the end of the day, are paying the bill — feel they’ve gotten a better value for their tuition dollars, which is another big concern for colleges.
而任何能提高GPA的做法都可能让学生——他们毕竟是付钱的人——觉得自己交的学费更值，这是大学关心的另一件大事。
"Harsh as it may be to say, that decision should likely not be made contingent on a child's opinions, but rather made for them with great consideration into what home can meet their needs best — and give them an opportunity to customize it a bit and make it their own."
“虽然这样说可能有些刺耳，但这个决定或许不应取决于孩子的意见，而应在充分考虑什么样的房子最能满足他们需求的基础上替他们做出——同时给他们机会对房子稍加布置，让它成为自己的家。”
Jay Lininger would most likely support ____
杰伊·利宁格最有可能支持____
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi would most likely agree that ____
阿尔伯特·圣-乔尔吉最有可能赞同____
Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults.
在它结束之前，它很可能会改变一代年轻人的人生轨迹和性格。