开始有很多人都嘲笑Ty的玩具瘪瘪的没有内容，戏称他们是“马路杀手”，但在亚特兰大的首次玩具展销会上售出3万个玩具后，这些人很快就闭嘴了。
While many initially scoffed at Ty’s under-stuffed animals and referred to them as ‘roadkill, ’ the haters were quickly hushed when 30, 000 were sold at the first toy show in Atlanta.
相反，他们只是去过加利福尼亚州的Mono湖，考察了被掺入砷的水，并由此分解出一个被戏称为GFAJ-1的细菌类型。
instead, they had gone to the arsenic-laced waters of Mono Lake in California and isolated a strain of bacteria they dubbed GFAJ-1.
在阿拉伯世界一个通常安静的角落，被戏称“无聊的哈希姆王国”正发生着一件对他们来说有些陌生的事情。
SOMETHING strange is happening in a usually quiet corner of the Arab world, often mocked as "the Hashemite kingdom of boredom".
人们爱她，以至于他们曾戏称她为“埃维塔”，长在她死后，很多阿根廷人继续崇拜她。
The people loved her so much that they nicknamed her "Evita", and long after her death, many Argentines continue to.
他们大多数都是从国内来的访问学者，研究动物或农学的，他们都戏称自己是兽医。
Most of them are visiting professors from China; most of them are doing research on animals and agriculture. Some of them called themselves vets jokingly.
他们也不乏幽默与讽刺地谈及他们自己过分的行为，比如，他们把由两大汽车公司新建的两幢大型办公楼戏称为“我们的戴姆勒”和“大奔驰”。
They can be funny and sarcastic about their own excesses, by referring, for instance, to the two enormous new office towers built by their big auto companies as "Notre Daimler" and "Big Benz.
在1972年，IBM推出了灵活的软磁盘作为一个中型载货节目到电脑主机。由于磁盘这么灵活的，他们被戏称为软盘。
In 1972, IBM introduced flexible diskettes as a medium for loading programs into mainframe computers. Because the disks were so flexible, they were nicknamed floppy disks.
人们喜欢她，以至于他们曾戏称她为“埃维塔”，在她死后很长时间里，很多阿根廷人继续崇拜她。
The people loved her so much that they nicknamed her "Evita", and long after her death, many Argentines continue to worship her.
今天，俄国人再也不会戏称它为“冷冷的废墟”，相反，他们因之丰富的自然资源而尊称它为宝库。
Today, Russians no longer think of Siberia as a cold wasteland, but as an area to be prized because of its rich natural resources.
科学家们将该行星系恒星四周的抱负地带称为“宜居地带”，因为这里正好适宜生命保存，他们有时也将其戏称为“金发美男地带”。
Scientists refer to the ideal zone just around the star as "the habitable zone, " sometimes jokingly called the "Goldilocks Zone, " as it is just right for supporting life.
科学家们将该行星系恒星四周的抱负地带称为“宜居地带”，因为这里正好适宜生命保存，他们有时也将其戏称为“金发美男地带”。
Scientists refer to the ideal zone just around the star as "the habitable zone, " sometimes jokingly called the "Goldilocks Zone, " as it is just right for supporting life.
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