Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur.
尽管彼得罗斯基博士承认，由于设计工程项目或实施项目的人会犯错，工程项目可能会失败，但他在这一本书中进一步拓宽了自己的观点，将更多可能导致失败的因素考虑了进来。
New snowfall widens the plowing.
新的降雪使耕地更加宽阔。
这条河越流越宽。
River widens out here as the land gets flatter.
随着地势变得平坦，长江在这里也变宽了。
Time wipes off everything but widens my wrinkles.
时间可以冲淡一切，却加深了我的皱纹。
This reduces gain but widens the amplifier's passband.
这方法降低了增益，但加宽了放大器的通频带。
The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.
河流转向东流时河道大幅度变宽。
The Yangtse River widens out here as the land gets flatter.
随着地势变得平坦，长江在这里也变宽了。
And as the gap widens, it is close to becoming an obsession.
而且，随着两者差距的拉大，这几乎成为一种困扰。
Chief among them is that doing so widens one's investment choices.
其中最主要的是可以扩大自己的投资选择。
The experiment perfects the detecting technique and widens its application.
该工作完善了检测技术、拓宽了实践应用范围。
Travelling widens our view, increases our knowledge, and builds our bodies.
旅游可使我们开阔视野，增长知识，锻炼体魄。
At the entrance, the staircase also widens to provide an informal seating area.
在入口处，楼梯扩宽以提供友好的座位区。
Slightly fitted at the knee and gently widens at the ankle to fit naturally over boots.
膝盖处贴身裁减，脚踝处宽松以自然的覆盖鞋子。
Europe is being stretched, as the northern Atlantic widens and the African Plate drops.
欧洲被拉伸了，由于北大西洋的变宽和非洲板块的下降。
House speaker John Boehner says he has one question about the investigation as it widens.
众议院议长约翰·博纳表示，随着调查的扩大他有一个问题要问。
It also widens the green zone of cluster sizes that Coherence supports with minimal tuning.
它同时扩大了Coherence在最小调整情况下支持的集群绿色地带。
Some of them hold the opinion that technology widens the gap between the poor and the rich.
有些人认为科技扩大了贫富之间的差距。
On the screen a black dot moves from side to side; when it stops, a circle widens around it.
显示屏上有个小黑点，从这边跑到那边；黑点停住时，围绕它的圆圈就扩大。
The opportunities and job market widens considerably for those with advance degrees in this field.
机遇和就业市场大大需要在这一领域的高级学位人才。
Layers give hair dimension, and that extra body visually widens the face, making the nose seem smaller.
层次可以使发型看起来具有厚度，厚度增加了会使脸在视觉上变宽，使鼻子看起来更小。
When the moon pulls this covering toward it, it stretches so that it thins out and widens on each side.
当月亮拉扯这覆盖物往它时，它舒展，以便它在每边变薄并且加宽。
Figure 8 shows how the sidebar background widens as the browser view port is changed from narrow to wide.
图8显示边栏背景的宽度如何随着浏览器窗口由窄变宽。
Today, the majority of my work is done for foreign clients and that truly widens my professional horizons.
但是今天，我的大部分业务都是来自西班牙以外的国家，这真的扩大了我的视野增强了我的专业水平。
It both widens the thinking space of university students and brings, to some extent, them the side effect.
互联网在不断拓宽当代大学生思维空间的同时，也在一定程度上带来负面影响。
First, knowledge explosion constantly widens the gap of professional levels between the author and the editor.
知识爆炸不断加大作者和编者之间的业务差距是其一；
In periods, like the current one, when educational progress lags behind technological change, inequality widens.
在类似当前这种状况的时期，即当教育进步滞后于技术变革时，不平等的状况就会加剧。
Discourse Analysis together with the "Pragmatic Turn" of linguistics widens the field of research and method of linguistics.
话语分析与语言学的“语用转向”相结合，拓展了语言学的研究领域和研究方法。
Discourse Analysis together with the "Pragmatic Turn" of linguistics widens the field of research and method of linguistics.
话语分析与语言学的“语用转向”相结合，拓展了语言学的研究领域和研究方法。
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