The questions arising round Zubu and Tatar may be called a puzzle of the last century.
阻卜与鞑靼之谜堪称一道世纪难题。
The company has also been piecing together a puzzle of social networking companies, technologies and engineers.
该公司还在破解一道由社交网络公司、技术以及工程师组成的难题。
"For all the anxiety the essay causes," says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, "it's a very small piece of the puzzle."
“尽管这篇文章引起了焦虑，”宾夕法尼亚州麦瑟斯堡学院的比尔·麦克林蒂克说，“但它只是谜团中非常小的一块。”
So really we are working just a few pieces of a big puzzle.
所以我们在几个大困惑上兜圈子。
Geneticists in Canada have discovered a clue to the puzzle of why our cells get old and die.
加拿大的遗传学家已经发现了解开我们细胞衰老死亡之迷的线索。
And this poses a puzzle: how can characteristics that disappeared millions of years ago suddenly reappear?
这就造成了一个难题：数百万年前消失的特征是如何突然重现的？
A related puzzle for scientists is the present distribution of Varanus' largest surviving species, the Komodo dragon.
令科学家们困惑的一个相关问题是，现存最大物种科莫多巨蜥的分布情况。
A further puzzle is why are there always a few exceptions, like left-handed humans, who are wired differently from the majority of the population?
更让人困惑的是，为什么总是有少数例外？比如左撇子，他们与大多数人的思维方式不同。
Earth's surface is not made up of a single sheet of rock that forms a crust but rather a number of "tectonic plates" that fit closely, like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
地球表面并不是由构成地壳的单块岩石构成，而是许多紧密相连的“构造板块”，像一块巨大的拼图。
"The results are just a piece of the jigsaw puzzle in terms of climate models. They are part of the ongoing process of climate model evaluation, " He said.
他说：“这些结果只是气候模型拼图的一部分而已。它们是正在不断进行中的气候模型评价的一部分。”
We may be better at completing the missing parts of a puzzle than our parents.
我们可能比父母更擅长填补拼图中缺失的部分。
Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition after controlling for differences in parents' income, education and the amount of parent talk, Levine said.
莱文说，在控制了父母的收入、教育和交谈量的差异等因素后，发现拼图游戏是预测认知能力的一个重要因素。
FOR the evolutionarily minded, the existence of fairness is a puzzle.
从进化的角度看，公平的存在是一个谜。
Still, this result remains something of a puzzle, given all the other evidence on the positive relation between reported happiness and income.
即使考虑到所有其它证据证明幸福和收入之间有绝对的关系，这个问题仍旧让人困惑。
Here's a puzzle: a child pees in the shallow end of a pool and then swims to the deep end.
这是一个谜：一个孩子在水池较浅的一端小便然后游到较深的一端。
Workers in a lime quarry in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany, unearthed a puzzle in a small cave: a number of ancient-looking bones.
在德国杜塞尔多夫附近的尼安德谷的石灰采石场，工人们从一个小洞穴中挖出了一个谜：一些看上去古老的骨头。
So, laughter is kind of a puzzle.
所以笑是一个难解之谜。
The different levels of legality that Wenzhounese perceive are a bit of a puzzle to an outside observer.
温州人对不同层次司法的认识让外借的观察着有点迷惑。
It is a living part of the human puzzle.
它是人类一大难题。
The kitchen is more of a puzzle.
厨房更是个谜！
We have divided the human body into a jigsaw puzzle of component parts.
就好像人体是个拼图，我们给每块拼图对应一个专科，却忘记了他们事实上都是整体的一部分，而我们做的每件事都只是从某一专科来影响整个人体。
They searched for patterns in the proxy data that fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
他们在替代物数据中寻找能像拼图板那样拼合在一起的组合模式。
Like a jigsaw puzzle, each medal is a piece of the master design.
就像七巧板一样，每一枚奖牌就是一项大师们的杰出设计。
Imagine the database change management process as a set of interlocking puzzle pieces.
将数据库变更管理过程想象成一套彼此相连的拼图。
One moment the crust took the form of a shattered windshield, then it coalesced into a jigsaw puzzle, then a ragged map of the world.
某一瞬间，地壳会变成破碎的挡风玻璃，随后又合并成一块巨大的拼图，仿佛是一幅制作粗糙的世界地图。
A new piece of astrophysical research may, however, have uncovered a crucial piece of the puzzle.
然而，新领域的天体物理学研究或许已经揭示出这个谜团的关键因素。
“I think it’s important to point out that we have not solved coronal heating, but we have provided a piece of the puzzle, ” he says.
“我认为有必要指出，我们还没有解决日冕是如何被加热的，但是我们离答案又近了一步”，巴特德 巴日尔说。
But there is a bit of a puzzle about the saving he expects to make from this controversial policy, which will apply from 2013.
但是还有一点不明白的地方，即关于储蓄，他做出了这个具有争议性的政策，为什么要从2013年才开始实行？
"I think it's important to point out that we have not solved coronal heating, but we have provided a piece of the puzzle," he says.
“我认为有必要指出，我们还没有解决日冕是如何被加热的，但是我们离答案又近了一步”，巴特德巴日尔说。
"I think it's important to point out that we have not solved coronal heating, but we have provided a piece of the puzzle," he says.
“我认为有必要指出，我们还没有解决日冕是如何被加热的，但是我们离答案又近了一步”，巴特德巴日尔说。
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