正如查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）所观察到的那样，只要有一种基因组成的个体比其他个体更善于繁殖，自然选择就会起作用。
As Charles Darwin observed, natural selection operates whenever individuals of one genetic composition are better at reproducing than that of others.
在这些方面的影响中，水的利用比气温本身起的作用更重要。
The availability of water plays a more important role on these impacts than temperature itself.
可是，即便是卡路里摄入比锻炼更重要，这并不意味着锻炼在保持苗条体形方面不起重要作用。
But even if calorie intake trumps exercise, this does not mean exercise does not play a key role in helping people stay trim.
最近自然杂志上的一片文章称这可能要归咎于密西西比河的侵蚀作用。
A new paper in the journal Nature suggests the river's erosive action may be to blame.
工作态度对于一个人的成功或失败比工作能力起着更大的作用。
Mental attitude plays a far more important role in as person's success or failure than mental capacity.
对健康有颇大保护作用的西红柿中的番茄红素，熟吃比生吃更便于吸收。
Lycopene, which appears to have profound protective effects on health, is better absorbed from cooked than from raw tomatoes.
因此，虽然基因在泛自闭症障碍中起了重要作用，但是似乎比以前研究表明的重要性要小。
Thus, while genes play an important role in autism spectrum disorder, it looks as if they are less important than previous studies have suggested.
还是我们的情感和心理发挥更大的作用比以前实现？
Or do our emotions and psychology play a much bigger role than previously realized?
换句话说，在那种情况下，同种分子间的相互作用，比不同种分子间的，相互作用更容易进行。
In other words, the intermolecular interactions between like molecules are more favorable than the interactions between the unlike molecules, in that case.
第二，它有两个参数而不是一个：它作用在一系列的元素上比一个容器要好。
Second, it takes two arguments rather than one: it operates on a range of elements, rather than on a container.
比同种分子之间的相互作用更强。
所以你就可能比平时吃得多，这是周末作弊产生的反作用。
So you may eat more than you normally would-and your weekend cheat backfires.
油能与水分开，是因为油分子之间的作用比油水分子间的作用强。
Oils segregate out of water because the oil-oil interaction is more favorable than the oil-water interaction.
但实际上让这套系统发挥作用比看起来要难，因为那些生物太小了。
But getting the system to work is trickier than it seems, because the organisms are very small.
这个时间表还有一个副作用，你吃的比以前多了，这是因为你有很多的时间跑来跑去。
A side effect of this sleep schedule is that you need to eat more, since you're spending more time moving around.
如果海洋以现在的速度继续变得碱性更小，那么珊瑚礁将开始通过腐蚀作用，比通过钙化作用得到珊瑚更快地失去它。
If the seas continue to become less alkaline at the current rate, the time will soon come when reefs will start to lose coral faster through erosion than they gain it through calcification.
今天，控制着世界上的原油供给的国家比许多其他国家更具有杠杆作用优势。
Today, the countries that control the world's supplies of oil have leverage over much of the world.
在过去，尽管，那些崩盘对金融系统造成的损害比接踵而来的调整性过度反作用来的要小。
In the past, though, such collapses did less damage to the financial system than the regulatory over-reaction that followed them.
调整银行集团的另一个观点是让大银行来持有巨大资产的缓冲作用比小银行的大。
Another idea in regulatory circles is to force big Banks to hold a larger capital buffer than smaller ones.
热与冰的交互作用把岩浆雾化成比通常的火山灰更为纯净的微粒，同时，它产生的蒸气云把火山灰送到了比通常更高的高空。
The interaction of heat and ice atomized the magma into much finer particles than is typical, and created a steam cloud that sent the ash higher than usual into the air.
月球曾被认为它形成的时候与地球的距离比现在要近，而且旋转比现在更快，它的减速和离去是因为长期和地球发生相互的潮汐的作用导致。
The moon is thought to have formed closer to the Earth than it is now and spun faster, slowing down and moving away over time through tidal interactions with Earth.
我的意思是，难道不是赋予的作用，比评价的作用更多一点么？
I mean, does bestowal not come into playing a lot more than appraisal?
这个新的政策能比以前的起作用吗？
这些发现暗示着谈论他们的失恋经历比仅仅忧郁沉闷具有更大的治疗作用。
These findings suggest that talking about their experience, rather than simply moping in grief, may have therapeutic benefits for the lovelorn.
该方法将起作用，遗憾的是，它有一个副作用：支票帐户余额比测试开始时少，这使得其它测试变得更困难。
This approach will work, but it has an unfortunate side effect: the checking account balance is lower than when the test started, making other testing more difficult.
他距离传奇只有一线之隔，明白无误并起关键作用的一条线：在他在NBA商店中击败科比之前，勒布朗·詹姆斯需要在NBA总决赛中击败科比。
He comes with his legacy on the line, measured in one indisputable and defining way: Before he beats him in the NBA Store, LeBron James needs to beat Kobe Bryant in the NBA Finals.
他们能够“起作用”因为英雄能比歹徒们射击的好，于是歹徒的朋党们便选择报仇。
They only "work" because the hero can shoot better than the villain; but the villain's friends may decide on vengeance.
他们能够“起作用”因为英雄能比歹徒们射击的好，于是歹徒的朋党们便选择报仇。
They only "work" because the hero can shoot better than the villain; but the villain's friends may decide on vengeance.
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