To make seawater fit for human consumption its salt content of approximately 3.5% must be cut to 0.5% or less.
为了使海水适应人类的需求,其包含的约3.5%的盐份必须被降低到0.5%或者更低。
No one now knows how easy it would be to turbo-charge an existing human pathogen, or take one that infects another type of animal and assist its passage over the species barrier.
现在没人知道激发一种既存的人体病菌有多么容易,不知道使病菌传染给另一种动物,帮助其跨越物种界限而传播有多么容易。
HBES is the official organization of evolutionary psychologists and a champion of applying Darwinian thinking to human psychology, and its conferences seem to be gaining steam.
HBES是进化心理学家的官方组织,其倡导将达尔文思想应用于人类心理学,而且它的会议看起来日益活跃。
Understanding more about the heliosphere and its ability to filter out galactic cosmic rays could be critical for assessing the safety of human space travel, Schwadron notes.
对日球层和它过滤宇宙射线的机制了解的越多,就越有助于评估人类星际航行安全性。
Knoppix can also be viewed as a "least common denominator" : its purpose is to get the computer running with as little delay or human assistance as possible.
也可以将Knoppix看成是“最小公分母”:它的目的是为了让计算机在尽可能少的延迟或人员辅助的情况下运行。
The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr DE Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
全书开展了一个论战,其主打目标就是deWaal先生所认为的一种被扭曲的观点:认为人类都是无情冷酷自私,弱肉强食。
It is impossible, for example, to calculate phi for the human brain because its billions of neurons and trillions of connections can be arranged in so many ways.
比如,计算人脑的phi值是不太可能的,因为人的大脑有数以十亿记的神经细胞和神经细胞之间的亿万个不同的连结。
But not just for its own sake or because they mistakenly believe that science holds "the key" to human progress or provides the lens through which such progress should be viewed.
但是不仅仅是为了科学本身,或者因为他们错误地认为科学拥有人类进步的“关键”或提供了可以看见这类进步的镜头。
Above all, with the human population set to increase by half over the next 40 years, the world needs to work out where its food is going to be produced.
接下来的40年中,人口势必能够在现在的基础上增长半数,世界上最重要的任务就是要找到合适的地点生产我们的粮食。
We need constantly to remind ourselves that it is a characteristic of human language to present its users with a wide range of words and of ways in which these words can be combined into sentences.
我们需要不断地提醒自己:人类语言的最大特点就是能够为语言的使用者提供丰富多彩的词汇,还有丰富的表达方式可把这些词汇连接成各种句子。
At its heart, the exercise asks you to question the nature of experience, and to consider what it really means to be human.
这个实验的核心思想是让人们质疑经历的本质,并思考作为一个人的真正意义是什么。
More often the answer will be fiddling-finding ways to apply human muscle with the grain of nature, rather than against it, and help it in its inbuilt tendency to recycle things.
答案通常情况下将会变得无足轻重,找到使人类力量与自然相和谐的应用方式,而不是与自然相抗衡,并且以自然固有的形式循环物质。
And given the complexity of the world and how much of it is still to be digitised, IBM's human platform looks unlikely to reach its limits soon.
再考虑到这个世界的复杂度以及剩下的有待数字化的大量内容,IBM的人类平台在短期内看来还不会达到极限。
In practice, of course, farmers will still be hostage to the whims of the collective and its often ugly human faces.
当然,实践中农民将依然被集体所绑架,依然得面对代理集体的那些丑恶嘴脸。
WHO will be working closely with its Member States in coming years to develop effective means of adapting to a changing climate and reducing its effects on human health.
世卫组织将与会员国在今后几年里紧密合作,开发适应变化气候的有效手段,减少气候变化对人类健康的影响。
Whatever form it takes, the use of money as a means of exchange seems to be hardwired; so too does its capacity continually to distort human behaviour.
无论交易采取何种形式,金钱交换手段似乎已经成型;同时,金钱已经能够不断扭曲人类的行为。
No matter how intelligent a robot might be, it's nice knowing you can pull its plug to halt the anti-human insurrection.
不管机器人有多智能,还好我们拔掉它的插头就可以制止它攻击人类。
Health care needs to have its design Renaissance, where products and services are redesigned to be responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
医保系统需要像文艺复兴一样重塑,要考虑到人们的需要以及人们的弱点。
Nitrogen in the atmosphere is harmless in its inert state, but the report says reactive forms of nitrogen, largely produced by human activity, can be a menace to the natural world.
大气中的惰性氮是无害的,但报告说主要由人类活动产生的活性氮可能危害自然界。
But this reef fish could be in danger of losing its smarts as levels of CO2 in the ocean continue to rise due to human activity, according to a new study.
一份新近研究指出,在人类活动导致海洋内二氧化碳持续飙升的威胁下,这种珊瑚礁鱼类可能面临着失去其智力的危险。
Its inventions are simply to be appropriated by clever engineers like Fuller and used to save the human race.
工业发明只能由像Fuller这般的聪明的工程师加以利用,用来挽救人类。
It is human nature that our imaginations jump to the most unpleasant outcomes: the new neighborhood will be more dangerous despite its excellent reputation;
天性使然,我们的想象力总是偏向最不如意的结果:新邻居总是多几分危险,尽管人家声誉良好;
The Ares rocket is tentatively scheduled to be in service by 2015 but an influential review of Nasa's human spaceflight programme has cast doubt on its future.
战神火箭暂计划于2015年正式服役,然而一份有影响力的评估报告对NASA的人类太空计划前景表示了怀疑。
This ability of the human brain to turn fear on its head could be a key to treating phobias(3) and anxiety disorders, according to scientists.
科学家称人脑对恐怖事物的反应将是治疗恐怖症和焦虑症的关键。
University to be human, material and financial support, of course, also has its own situation with their own ideas.
读大学要人力,物力和财力的支持,当然要结合自身的情况还有自己的想法。
University to be human, material and financial support, of course, also has its own situation with their own ideas.
读大学要人力,物力和财力的支持,当然要结合自身的情况还有自己的想法。
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