In fact, it became so valuable that it was known as white gold and spies were sent to China to discover what they did to the clay to produce such high-quality merchandise.
事实上，它变得如此珍贵，以至于被称为“白金”，间谍被派往中国，以查明他们如何处理粘土，从而生产出如此高质量的商品。
It is known as the music room because once it was used for music lessons.
它被称为音乐室，因为它曾用来上音乐课。
It is also known as Darwin's Slipper Flower, because it was first discovered by Charles Darwin in his trip around South America.
它也被称为“达尔文的拖鞋花”，因为它是由查尔斯·达尔文在南美旅行时首次发现的。
It would be bluer than it should be and would be of a type known to astronomers as a “blue straggler”.
但是，它会比它本来的颜色看起来更蓝一些并且可以被天文学家作为一颗“蓝离散星”所发觉。
Normal swells, known technically as gravity waves, are created by wind pushing the surface of the sea up and gravity then pulling it down, causing it to bounce.
一般的波浪，技术上被成为重力波，是由于风推动着海洋表面上升而后又在重力的作用下被拉向下方，这便会导致海水的回弹。
This Duncker candle problem, as it is known, is considered a good test of creativity because it requires you to imagine something being used for a purpose quite different from its usual one.
众所周知，这个邓克尔蜡烛难题被认为是一个很好的创造力测试，因为它要求你想象出某物跟它通常用途大不相同的使用方法。
Its function as fuel is endangering its survival, as even park rangers charged with protecting it have been known to burn it to keep warm on cold nights.
可以作燃料也危及到了它们的生存。即使是负责保护它们的公园巡逻队员也会在寒冷的夜晚不得己地利用它们取暖。
Nor could he have foreseen how we could use the Internet to obtain information on every known subject, so we can read it on a screen in our homes and even print it as well if we want to.
他也无法预测到我们可以利用国际互联网获取有关任何已知专题的信息，以便在家里的屏幕上阅读，如果愿意的话甚至可以将其打印出来。
Bee pollen: This should actually be known as flower pollen, but honeybees are the ones to gather it, so we call it bee pollen.
蜂花粉：这实际上应称为花粉，但因为它是蜜蜂收集的，所以我们称之为蜂花粉。
Once its psychedelic effects were realised, they then tried it in psychotherapy and as a treatment for alcoholism, for which it became known at the time as a miracle cure.
一旦它的迷幻效果出现，他们接着就在心理治疗方面尝试用它，它也同样作为一个酗酒的治疗方法，因为在当时这个化合物以作为一个奇迹的治愈而得名。
Six months later, it moves back. When the mutations are gradual, as with seasonal flu, it is known as drift; when they are abrupt, as with the new strain of H1N1, you have a shift on your hands.
如果病毒突变是渐进式的，就像季节性流感一样，就是为人所知的一般缓慢趋势，但如果病毒突变是急进式的，就像现在的H1N1新品种，那大家可就碰上了紧急的加速档了。
We spend a third of our lives asleep, and it's clear that without it our brains don't function as well, yet little is known about exactly why we do it.
我们每天都要花掉三分之一的时间去睡觉，而且很确定，如果不睡觉，我们的大脑就不能正常工作。但是很少人知道我们为什么会这样。更不知道其中的机理。
Environmentally triggered alterations in genes - known as epigenetic changes - can affect when a gene is activated, how robustly it is turned on and how it interacts with neighboring genes.
环境所引发的基因变异被称为“表观遗传变化”，它可能会影响基因被激活的时间、被激活的程度以及它如何与邻近基因相互配合。
Even before it opened in April, it was known as the small cucumber because it rises against the sky like a green pickle.
甚至在四月份对外之前，这座楼就被人们称为小黄瓜，因为它直耸入云，在天空的映衬下看上去就像一根绿黄瓜。
It is known as a "zero-day" vulnerability because, effectively, it has been there since the product was launched - day zero - and not even its developer had spotted it.
该漏洞被称为“零日”漏洞，因为这一漏洞自从产品推出以来就一直存在——从第“零天”开始就存在，甚至连开发人员都没有发现过。
I knew it myself, as it was known to Miss Bingley, but her brother is even yet ignorant of it.
这件事不但我知道，彬格莱小姐也知道，然而她哥哥一直到现在还蒙在鼓里。
It is found mainly in Latin America, where it is mostly transmitted to humans by the faeces of triatomine bugs, known as' kissing bugs', among other names, depending on the geographical area.
该病主要见于拉丁美洲，多数通过锥蝽臭虫的粪便传播给人类。这类臭虫亦称吸血猎蝽，并根据地理区域，还有其它名称。
He continued to publish it annually for about 25 years, and it came to be known as Poor Richard's Almanac.
此后25年间，他每年出版一本，这就是后来我们所熟知的《穷人理查德历书》。
It works to improve the efficiency of existing energy sources, including nuclear power as it has its own nuclear reactor, a lesser-known fact that MIT prefers not to brag about.
它能有效的改进现存能量的使用效率，包括核能，该校有一个核反应堆，麻省人不愿过分张扬的少有人知晓的事实。
It is known to purify the lungs and skin and generate perspiration to reduce fevers. It has calming properties as well.
据了解，它可以净化肺部和皮肤，使身体排汗退热，而且它还有镇定作用。
Finally, it enables the architects and designers to see the entire eventual scope of the system, so far as it is known, facilitating robust choices for the architecture and system design.
最后，它可以使构架人员和设计人员能够看到完整的最终系统范围，改进架构和系统设计的健壮性。
America has let it be known that, despite Mr Karzai's proven deftness in shirking tasks his foreign paymasters regard as essential, it is now prepared to get tough.
美国已经让世人知道，虽然卡尔扎伊先生已然证明了他逃避责任的娴熟——这点已被他的外国后台老板视为他的本质，但美国准备更加强硬。
Ice is only as safe as the water from which it is made, and should not be put in drinks unless it is known to be safe.
冰块只有当制造冰块的水安全时才是保险的，只有知道冰块安全时才能加入饮料。
Archaeologists do not think it was a mistake or coincidence given the importance attached to funerals during the period, known as the Corded Ware era because of the pottery it produced.
考古学家们认为这并不是一个巧合或者失误，因为在那个时期，古人的葬礼都非常的隆重，出现这种事情基本不可能。 而更有可能的是，他是一个同性恋者或者异装癖。
They make it clear that encouraging others online to kill themselves counts as assisting suicide, even if it is never known who, if anyone, has killed himself as a result.
法案明确规定在网络上鼓动他人自杀可认定为协助自杀，即使鼓动人不知道是否有人因此而自杀。
Had it been a tried and tested technology, there was no need for trust as you would have already known the bits and pieces of it.
假使它们被尝试和测试过了，那就没有信任的必要了，因为你已经对它了如指掌。
When it was founded in 1926, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (as it was then known) manufactured automatic fabric looms that could detect problems and shut down automatically.
当1926年成立之时，丰田自动织机制造工厂（后来众所周知的名称）生产自动织布机，该机器能够察觉问题并自动关机。
It showed the ice-encrusted north face of Everest and, below it, the great river of ice known as the Main Rongbuk Glacier, flowing in a sweeping, S-shaped curve down a broad, stony valley.
照片显示珠峰北坡被冰雪所覆盖，在它下面“大绒布”冰河以大幅度弯曲的“S”型曲线穿过广阔并充满岩石的峡谷。
As light from the most distant explosions travels toward Earth, it is stretched by the universe's expansion so that it appears red, a phenomenon known as redshift.
最遥远的爆炸光飞向地球时，被宇宙的膨胀拉长而呈红色——一种被称作红移的现象。
As light from the most distant explosions travels toward Earth, it is stretched by the universe's expansion so that it appears red, a phenomenon known as redshift.
最遥远的爆炸光飞向地球时，被宇宙的膨胀拉长而呈红色——一种被称作红移的现象。
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