果蝇在家中招人讨厌，但却是一个历史悠久的实验对象。通过研究果蝇，科学家们得以揭开胚胎发育的秘密。

Studying the fruit fly, a household nuisance but a time-honored experimental subject, has enabled the secrets of how embryos develop to begin to be unraveled by scientists.

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农业学家也考虑过用寄生蜂来控制果蝇。

Agricultural scientists have also looked at controlling fruit flies with parasitic wasps.

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十多年以来，科学家已经了解到，低卡路里的饮食能够延长很多生物的寿命，包括酵母菌、果蝇、猴子，可能还包括人类。

For more than a decade, scientists have known that a low-calorie diet lengthens the lives of many organisms, including yeast, fruit flies, monkeys, and perhaps humans.

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