事实上，英语之所以成为通用语，有许多相互关联的原因。
There are, in fact, a number of interlocking reasons for the popularity of English as a lingua franca.
我之所以成为一名女警察，是因为我十几岁时的一次难忘经历。
I work as a policewoman because of an unforgettable experience that happened in my teens.
这之所以成为可能，只是因为磁盘驱动器虽然价值高，但体积小、重量轻，因此运输成本低。
This is possible only because disk drives, while valuable, are small and light and so cost little to ship.
当代社会几乎所有方面都依赖这些创新，这些创新之所以成为可能，是因为于当时美国在数学和科学教育方面处于世界领先地位。
Those innovations, upon which virtually all aspects of contemporary society now depend, were possible because the United States then led the world in mathematics and science education.
所以成为老师这个梦想给了我不落后与他人的动力。
So my dream of being a teacher gives me motive to keep up with others.
不过杭州之所以成为宜居之地似乎与它较慢的生活节奏大有关系。
But what makes it an attractive place to live also seems to have a lot to do with its slower pace of life.
Y染色体让携带者之所以成为男性，是因为它携带了雄性决定基因。
The Y chromosome makes its owner male because it carries the male-determining gene.
“文化”之所以成为年度热词，是因为我们希望得到更深层次的解释。
"Culture" is our word of the year because we want the deepest explanation possible.
热爱一切使你之所以成为你自己的事物。你的价值，你的才能，你的回忆。
Love the things that make you you.Your values and talents and memories.
这很重要，因为脑扫描能捕捉到这一点点差异，所以成为诊断这种疾病的标准化方式。
This is significant because it can be picked up by a brain scan and so become a standardised way to diagnose the condition.
这条消息之所以成为新闻是因为研究者将这种获取干细胞的方法用于猴子身上。
This made the news because the researchers had performed their trick in monkeys.
它现在之所以成为技术潮流，是因为Amazon引入了大范围的云计算环境。
It is now at the forefront of current technology trends because of the groundbreaking cloud computing environment introduced by Amazon.
大多数的名人之所以成为名人难道不正是因为他们打破常规束缚去追求他们所热衷的事业么？
Isn't it true that most famous people became famous by breaking rank and pursuing their passions?
而我之所以成为生物学家的一个原因是这些动物就像我们和宇宙中的其他生物一样充满了魅力。
part of why I became a biologist is that fascination with beings that seem both exactly like us and a universe apart.
商店盗窃现象已经变成了一个巨大且日益严重的社会流行病——这就是三分之一的女囚犯之所以成为囚犯的原因。
Shoplifting is a huge and rising epidemic: it's the reason why one in three women prisoners is sent to jail.
这些作物之所以成为生物燃油产业的至爱是因为它们都有着尤其高效的光合作用形式，使其能够快速生长。
These are favourites with the biofuel industry because they share a particularly efficient form of photosynthesis that enables them to grow fast.
那次原油泄漏之所以成为环境破坏的同义词，是因为原油到达海岸之后吞噬了1200英里长的原生态沿岸。
What made that spill synonymous with environmental devastation was that the oil that reached the coast then slurped over 1,200 miles of pristine shoreline.
那次原油泄漏之所以成为环境破坏的同义词，是因为原油到达海岸之后吞噬了1200英里长的原生态沿岸。
What made that spill synonymous with environmental devastation was that the oil that reached the coast then slurped over 1, 200 miles of pristine shoreline.
比如，我们认为，我们区分正确与错误的能力是我们之所以成为人类的一个根本特征，即我们对道德和哲学的掌握。
For example, we think of our ability to distinguish between right and wrong as a fundamental part of what makes us human, giving us a grasp of morality and philosophy.
在搜索中引入人的因素之所以成为一种潮流，这反映出了互联网用户对各类算法的局限性所产生的挫败感与日俱增。
The vogue for human curation reflects the growing frustration Net users have with the limits of algorithms.
我之所以成为一名无线Internet服务提供者，是因为我的邻居没有DSL或其他Internet接入服务。
I became a wireless Internet service provider because my neighborhood had no DSL or cable Internet service.
一个团队之所以成为一个高效能团队，人们有很多老套的描述方法，比如：“团队中没有自我”，“整体作用大于局部作用之和”。
There are many cliches people use to describe what makes a team a high-performance team: "There's no 'I' in team" and "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts," for example.
我们2.0版的人类拥有许多力量，其中三种是我们之所以成为今天自己的核心力量：文字、语言和音乐(后者也许是艺术的顶峰)。
We Human 2.0's have, among many powers, three that are central to who we take ourselves to be today: writing, speech, and music (the latter perhaps being the pinnacle of the arts).
而电器转换盒、煤气表、个人电脑之所以成为蚂蚁们的理想居所是因为它们的内部环境干燥，有微小的孔缝，成为了蚂蚁最适于防御的入口。
Electrical switch boxes, gas meters, or your PC make ideal homes because they are dry and have small, easily defendable entrances.
而电器转换盒、煤气表、个人电脑之所以成为蚂蚁们的理想居所是因为它们的内部环境干燥，有微小的孔缝，成为了蚂蚁最适于防御的入口。
Electrical switch boxes, gas meters, or your PC make ideal homes because they are dry and have small, easily defendable entrances.
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