Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
猫狗和人一样也有左、右撇子之分。
And one of the most bizarre of these features is that a lot of the molecules of which life is made are left-handed.
这类特征中最奇异的一个就是许多构成生命的分子是左旋的。
The idea is that right-handed neutrinos might be much heavier than left-handed ones and so could provide the requisite gravity.
这种观点是,右手中微子可能比左手的中微子重得多,因此可以提供必要的重力。
Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
在众军之中有拣选的七百精兵,都是左手便利的,能用机弦甩石打人,毫发不差。
This indicates some process involving liquid water favours the creation of left-handed amino acids.
这显示由液态水所参与的某些未知过程倾向于产生左型氨基酸。
While it may be too late for Federer to take such drastic action, the only reason Nadal, a natural right-hander, plays left-handed is because of his uncle and coach Toni's foresight.
费德勒采取如此激烈的行动可能为时已晚,右撇子纳达尔用左手打球的唯一原因是他叔叔兼教练Toni的远见。
Prince William is known to be proud of the fact that he is left-handed and now it seems Prince George might be a lefty too.
众所周知,威廉王子对自己惯用左手颇感自豪,而现在乔治小王子似乎也可能是个左撇子。
A left-handed molecule is one that causes polarised light to rotate to the left (ie, anticlockwise).
左旋分子就是使偏振光发生左(即逆时针方向)旋的分子。
Can we be critical of a person who is born left-handed or dyslexic?
我们能批评一个生为左撇子或生来就有诵读困难的人吗?
If you're left-handed, there's good news.
如果你是左撇子,那么这里有好消息。
But if you're left-handed, don't let it get to you.
但如果你是左撇子,也不必烦恼。
If you happen to be left-handed and you attend Juniata College in Pennsylvania, then you effectively meet the criteria for this wacky scholarship.
如果你恰好是一个左撇子,又恰好在美国宾夕法尼亚州的杰尼阿塔学院上学,那么你就已经满足了申请这项奇怪奖学金的全部条件。
A left-handed toolmaker would produce the opposite pattern.
一个左撇子工具制造者会做出相反的图案。
We are without any doubt the largest supplier of the left-handed items.
毫无疑问,我们是左撇子产品的最大供应商。
The twenty that make up the proteins on Earth are all left-handed.
组成地球上蛋白质的那20个(氨基酸)都是左旋氨基酸。
Campaigners point out that a high percentage of the prison population is left-handed.
活动家们指出,监狱中,囚犯是左撇子的比例很高。
Manufactures are now beginning to see that there is a market for left-handed products.
现在制造商们开始发现左撇子产品的市场。
30 years after Gruby's initial efforts, there are more left-handed product actually on the market.
在格鲁比初次尝试的30年后,市面上出现了更多面向左撇子的产品。
Campaigners feel it's strange that children in British schools are penalized because they happen to be left-handed.
令活动家们感到奇怪的是,在英国的学校里,孩子们仅因为他们碰巧是左撇子而处于劣势。
Campaigners have warned that the British government is not doing enough to prevent left-handed pupils from falling behind their peers.
活动家们警告说,英国政府在防止左撇子学生落后于同龄人方面做得不够。
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。
They want the department of education to record which children are left-handed and what their educational attainments are, since they make up some 10% of the population.
他们希望教育部记录哪些孩子是左撇子以及这些孩子的受教育程度,因为这些孩子占人口的10%左右。
Nor does it explain why, in a species where one parent determines handedness, a brood is not exclusively right-or left-handed when the offspring would have the same genetic predisposition.
这也不能解释为什么在一个由父母一方决定用利手的物种中,当后代具有相同的遗传倾向时,他们并非完全是右撇子或左撇子。
In the human world, the left-handed seem at quite a disadvantage.
在人的世界里,左撇子似乎处于相当不利的地位。
I read someplace that right-pawed cats are in the minority, just like left-handed people.
我在什么地方读到过,右撇子猫是猫中的少数,就像左撇子在人类中的情况。
Certainly, the prevalence has been lower among the 12 postwar British prime ministers; only two of them, Churchill and Callaghan, were left-handed.
当然,这个概率在二战以后,英国的12任首相中较低,12人中只有2个人是左撇子:丘吉尔和卡拉汉。
The Los Angeles Times describes Sun as a smaller Toni Kukoc - long and left-handed with a surprising all-around game.
《洛杉矶时报》称孙悦是一个小号的库科奇,个高,左撇子,全能的技术令人称奇。
From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history.
从种植意大利面的电视新闻到左撇子汉堡的广告,媒体在愚人节制造的各种稀奇古怪的恶作剧也有一段“光辉”历史了。
If we had been on the planet with left-handed coordinate systems then actually our conventions would be all the other way around, but they are this way.
如果是在一个习惯左手系的星球上,那样我们的习惯会完全相反,就是这样了。
If we had been on the planet with left-handed coordinate systems then actually our conventions would be all the other way around, but they are this way.
如果是在一个习惯左手系的星球上,那样我们的习惯会完全相反,就是这样了。
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