Given that there is a living to be made at night, and given that alternative daytime trades are thoroughly occupied, natural selection has favoured bats that make a go of the night-hunting trade.

考虑到夜晚也可以生存，并且可供选择的白天的“交易”完全被占用，它们自然选择偏爱那些成功在夜间进行捕食“交易”的蝙蝠。

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When not campaigning, soldiers needed to be occupied; otherwise they represented a potentially dangerous source of friction and disloyalty.

不作战时，士兵需要处于忙碌状态；否则他们就会是危险的摩擦及不忠的潜在来源。

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The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision.

主日学校的孩子们分散在各处，和父母坐在一起，以便受到监督。

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Some of the sites that are said to be destroyed by Joshua and the Israelites weren't even occupied in this period, ; the late Bronze Age, beginning of the Iron Age; the Iron Age begins around 1200.

据说一些遗址已被破坏,被约书亚，以色列在那时还未被攻占，在铜器时代晚期，铁器时代的初始;,接触器时代自1200年左右开始。

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It makes sense that it's going to come out of the highest occupied atomic orbital, because that's going to be the lowest amount of energy that's required to actually eject an electron.

从最高占据轨道上,去掉一个电子是合理的，因为这样是发射一个电子,所损失的最低能量。

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But almost all known groups of foragers divide men's and women's work the same way, which makes it likely that the same rule applied in the past, and for the same reasons men tend to be stronger and faster, and women are more likely to be occupied with childcare.

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