中国微生物学家余勇向我们展示了这座宽敞的建筑，空荡荡的桌子，上面有带着插图的时间轴，详细介绍了自20世纪80年代以来中国南极行动的快速增长。
Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of China's Antarctic operations since the 1980s.
中国微生物学家余勇向我们展示了这座宽敞的建筑，里面的课桌空空如也。他在一张配有插图的时间轴上详细描述了中国南极探险活动自上世纪80年代以来的快速增长。
Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of Chinas Antarctic operations since the 1980s.
20世纪20年代，一位古生物学家在一个装着蛋的巢穴附近发现了一只小恐龙的化石遗迹。
In the 1920s, a paleontologist discovered the fossil remains of a small dinosaur near a nest containing eggs.
澳大利亚正经历着自20世纪30年代以来最严重的干旱，丛林大火已经持续了很长时间，造成许多生物死亡。
Australia is undergoing its worst drought (干旱) since the 1930s, leaving bushfires burning so long and causing many deaths.
这在1770年代得到改变，当时一个死了的这种奇怪的生物在作为英格兰像公共的奇物被展览。
That changed in the 1770s, when a dead specimen of this odd beast was exhibited in England as a public curiosity.
华盛顿大学心理学和生物学教授麦克·比彻(Michael Beecher)在20世纪80年代建立了一种假说，认为社会群体的大小与个体的区别有关。
Michael Beecher, a professor of psychology and biology at the University of Washington, developed the hypothesis in the 1980's that social group size predicts individual differences.
在上世纪70年代初，两名佐治亚大学生物学专业研究生马克和迪丽娅•欧文斯突然产生了在遥远的非洲重新安家的冲动。
In the early nineteen-seventies, Mark and Delia Owens, two graduate students in biology at the University of Georgia, were seized by the idea of resettling in remotest Africa.
在1980年代，一幅人熊的照片送至澳大利亚科学家TimFlannery，他最初将这种生物定性为树袋鼠。
In the 1980s, a photograph of the Bondegezou was sent to Australian research scientist Tim Flannery, who initially identified the creature as a young tree kangaroo.
08年一月，研究人员发现这种硕大生物的残骸，并据此猜测该生物的生活年代，以及其体重可能为1吨。
In January of 2008 researchers uncovered the remains of the enormous creature and guessed that, back when it was alive, the rodent weighed about 1 ton.
自上世纪80年代和法国科学家联手开展研究以来，泰国古生物学家们记录了五个恐龙新属种和六个以前未知的物种。
Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.
这个物种在19世纪20年代才从南边扩展到佛罗里达州，基本上正是那里变成自有生物的天堂的时间。
This species only colonized the Florida (from the South) in the nineteen twenties, which corresponds approximately when the state became a haven for the older of own species.
“八十年代开发了生物沙子饮用水过滤系统”，杰利森说，“这是迄今为止全面研究不同效率的饮水系统的特点。”
“BSFs were developed in the 1980s, ” says Jellison. “This is the most comprehensive study to date to characterize the efficiency of different filter types.”
这些研究始于90年代末，那时从事植物研究的研究人员和线虫生物学家学会了使用小RNA分子关闭基因。
The story started to unfold in the late 1990s, when plant researchers and nematode biologists learned to use small RNA molecules to shut down genes.
他说，在二十世纪七十年代，许多美国公司开始走出更加传统的工业进入IT硬件，软件和生物技术领域。
In the 1970s, he says, many Americans started to get out of more traditional industries and into it hardware, software and biotech.
与老式的木制船不同，大型金属船只的骨架历经海洋的磨砺，经过漫长的年代，最终变成各种海洋生物的家园和避风港。
The bones of great metal ships, unlike the wooden vessels of old, survive the ravages of the sea long enough to become home and 6 haven for Marine life of all kinds.
Aurora生物燃料公司的魏斯曼自从上个世纪70年代的石油危机以来一直在研究种植海藻作为燃油的可能性。
Joseph Weissman of Aurora Biofuels has been researching the potential of growing algae as a potential source of fuel oil since the oil crisis of the late 1970s.
到1885年它们在英国已被列为灭绝的生物，但19世纪50年代又有80只繁殖出的雄鸟归来。
They were judged extinct in the UK by 1885 but then made a comeback so that by the 1950s there were some 80 booming males.
自20世纪70年代以来，分子生物学家已在物种之间转移基因，一次转移一种基因；他们的工作给我们带来了转基因农作物和生物技术药物。
Molecular biologists have been transferring genes between species, one at a time, since the 1970s; their work has given us genetically modified crops and biotechnology drugs.
和70年代的生物科技一样，地球工程学无法和通常科学获得一样的对待。
Like the biotechnology of the 1970s, geoengineering cannot be treated just as science-as-usual.
在上世纪90年代，它克服了非洲谷类生产的最大生物障碍，就是能使庄稼枯死的一种叫斯特赖加的寄生杂草。
In the 1990s, he conquered the greatest biological constraint to cereal production in Africa - the deadly weed Striga.
不过，在20世纪80年代，古生物学者发现了完整的牙形刺化石标本，而直到最近科学家们才开始揭露出它们的秘密。
In the 1980s, however, paleontologists found full fossilized conodont specimens, and only recently have scientists begun to unravel their secrets.
20世纪80年代时科学家们认为地球周期性的生物灭绝可能是由遥远太空的涅墨西斯星球造成的，该星球和太阳很相似。
In the 1980s scientists believed that Earth's regular extinctions could be the result of a distant dark twin of the Sun, called Nemesis.
从二十世纪七十年代开始，在古生物学圈中，关于鸟类是否是就是由一种被称作兽脚亚目的双脚恐龙群组进化而来的争论一直喋喋不休。
Starting in the 1970s, a growing number of paleontologists argued that birds had evolved from a two-legged group of dinosaurs called theropods.
在普林斯顿获得宗教史博士学位以后，她进入一家叫Medarex的美国生物技术公司工作，她的丈夫也在上世纪的80年代进入了这一领域。
After a doctorate at Princeton in the history of religion, she went to work at Medarex, an American biotech firm that her husband was just getting off the ground in the 1980s.
在普林斯顿获得宗教史博士学位以后，她进入一家叫Medarex的美国生物技术公司工作，她的丈夫也在上世纪的80年代进入了这一领域。
After a doctorate at Princeton in the history of religion, she went to work at Medarex, an American biotech firm that her husband was just getting off the ground in the 1980s.
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