同时,将宝贝兵器视为百试不爽的万能法宝,也极为形象地状写出人们受到时代、观念积习的限制,在先进兵器期盼方面的局限性。
Worship of sacred weapons as all-mighty power manifests commoners' limit of the times, tradition as well as their restriction in expectation of advanced weapons.
一个哥伦比亚人想要别人靠近他时,他通常会用一个手势,一只手的所有手指都呈杯状,指向下方,同时快速地前后移动。
A Colombian who wants someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move rapidly back and forth.
在骏河湾,一串鞭状珊瑚为藏在水螅中的两只虾提供了栖息地。
In Suruga Bay, a strand of whip coral provides habitat for two shrimps, camouflaged among the polyps.
上龙用四根桨状的四肢推动它庞大的身体在水里游来游去,轻而易举地就能掠食形似海豚的鱼龙。
Using four paddle-like limbs to propel its bulky body through the water, the pliosaur made easy work of passing prey such as dolphin-like ichthyosaurs.
在我们的实验中,在两个目的地间做出决定后,尾状核迅速更新了它的信号。
In our experiment, after a decision was made between two destinations, the caudate nucleus rapidly updated its signal.
这一新模型可以粗略地得到现今存在的椭圆状星系和涡旋状星系的正确数目。
The new supercomputer model was able to predict roughly the right relative numbers of spirals and ellipticals that exist today.
他们认为最好的蜂蜜是嚼起来嘎吱作响的那种,因此,自豪地给客人拿出的蜂蜜里面都是蜡状蜂窝的碎片和死幼蜂的尸体。
They believe that the best honey is crunchy, and proudly offer their guests honey filled with fragments of waxy honeycomb and bits of dead baby bees.
而且,因为第二个月亮(月状物)比主月小,那么它可能冷却和凝聚地更快,这意味着它的岩石会更古老。
Also, because the second moon would have been smaller than the main one, it would have cooled and solidified more quickly, meaning that its rocks would be older.
但是一路看着路上的道路线跑来,我总是反复地梦见自己在沿着点状的白线奔跑。
But with all the travelling on roads, and looking at the markings, I get recurring dreams of following the dotted white line.
不仅如此,当一个浪头即将把海豹扫回险境之时,座头鲸还利用它的巨大的鳍状肢(五米长,动物王国中最长的)把它轻轻地推了回来。
Not only that, but when a wave threatened to return the seal to danger, the humpback used its massive flipper (at five metres, the longest in the animal kingdom) to nudge it back on.
而其独特的井字状城市格局也清晰地呈现在图片的左上角,围绕着城市的环形高速路也正在向周边快速辐射开去。
Its regular grid pattern is clearly visible at image upper left; concentric rings of major roadways around the city have been added as the metropolitan area has expanded.
当地的干旱并非像美国西南部或者澳大利亚内陆地区的那种地表龟裂状的干旱,但它确实抑制甚至扼杀了当地许多树木的生存。
It wasn't the earth-cracking kind of drought that happens in the American Southwest or the Australian outback, but it did stunt or kill lots of trees.
皮尔曼指出,乌干达的石油呈蜡状。除非石油管道不停地被加热,石油很可能会变成固体。
Mr Pearmain points out that Ugandan oil is waxy, and so likely to solidify in a pipeline unless heated.
“一个泥鳅尝试去模仿金鱼是毫无意义的,”他说,将自己比作须状地泥生的泥鳅。
“There is no point in a loach trying to mimic a goldfish, ” he said, comparing himself to the whiskered, mud-dwelling fish.
研究者们正在寻求一种能够更温和地抑制血小板的治疗方式,血小板是血液中盘状的物质,能形成血栓。
Researchers are seeking treatments that more gently orchestrate activity of platelets, disk-shaped particles in the blood that form clots.
更容易被忽略的是手部另一块骨骼舟状骨处的断裂,这也是手撑地摔倒时很容易受伤的部分。
What is much easier to miss, is a break in the scaphoid – one of the bones within the hand – which is also vulnerable to damage from a fall on to the palm.
过多地暴露在UVA和UV B下会增加患皮肤瘤的危险,包括患鳞状细胞癌的危险。
Too much exposure to both UVA and UVB rays raises your risk of skin tumors, including a form of cancer called squamous cell carcinoma.
由于单坡屋顶的高度从7英尺降至5英尺(2.1米降至1.5米),身高近190公分的我,不断地在橡木椽子上碰头,疼的我直往后退,结果鳞状的树皮又刮了后背和手臂。
Since the shed roof sloped from 7 feet down to 5 feet, I kept bumping the 6-foot 3-inch high crown of my head on the oak rafters. Recoiling in pain, I’d scrape my back or arms on the scaly tree bark.
一块被芬兰和俄罗斯环绕的狭长的指状陆地——Pasvik河谷是所有挪威北部领土上最宁静美丽的地方之一。
A narrow finger of land surrounded by Finland and Russia, the Pasvik River Valley is one of the most quietly beautiful of all northern Norwegian territories.
它们‘清楚地显示了至少一些巨型恒星由环绕的碟状气体和尘埃凝聚而成,就如我们的太阳在45亿年前一样。’
They "clearly show that at least some massive stars grow by accreting material from a circumstellar disk of gas and dust, just like our sun did roughly 4.5 billion years ago."
于是剩余的空间就很正常地用额外的内容来填充了——侧边栏、twitterfeeds、rss按钮、flickr照片集、文章档案和广告,然后将它们栏状化、固定化。
So the space was simply filled with additional content — sidebars, twitter feeds, rss buttons and flickr sets, archives and adverts. We’ve columnized and monetized.
透过脸孔,梭状回的活化被注意力的情况强烈地影响,但左侧杏仁核对于恐惧脸孔的反应则没有受影响。
Activation of fusiform gyri by faces was strongly affected by attentional condition, but the left amygdala response to fearful faces was not.
人们惊恐万状地逃离了火灾现场。
人们惊恐万状地逃离了火灾现场。
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