When driving in a car on a hot summer day, you may see what looks like shimmering water on the road, which, as science tells us, is really just a mirage, an illusion caused by the heating of the air.
在炎热的夏天开车时，你可能会在路上看到闪闪发光的水，但科学告诉我们，这其实只是海市蜃楼，是空气加热造成的幻觉。
Senator John C. Calhoun said it was a bad defeat for the south. But what was worse was the fact that it was caused by the votes of two southern senators.
约翰。C .卡尔豪参议员说，这一法案的通过对南方而言是一次糟糕的失败，但更糟糕的是，这一失败却是由两名南方参议员投了赞成票而引起的。
The probability is hard to calculate primarily because of the possibility of what are called common-cause accidents, where the loss of off-site power and of on-site power are caused by the same thing.
发生此类事故的概率很难估计，因为发生由于同种因素导致核电站内外同时断电的概率难以计算。
The probability is hard to calculate primarily because of the possibility of what are called common-cause accidents, where the loss of off-site power and of on-site power are caused by the same thing.
这个几率很难去计算的原因主要是因为发生所谓共发生事故的可能性，也就是说造成站外及站内电源掉线的是同一个原因。
As to what caused these cold snaps, the ever-popular suspects are ash and dust kicked up by either astronomical impacts or massive volcanism.
至于气温突降的原因，最具代表性的观点认为是由于天体冲撞或大规模火山喷发激起的火山灰和尘土。
The question remains, to what degree is the absence of women in science, mathematics and engineering caused by innate, immutable ability?
还是那个问题，到底多大程度上女性在科学、数学领域的缺位是由先天的，不可改变的能力决定的？
What the techie would fail to mention was that the BSOD was caused by a driver update he applied to the server without first testing it on a staging machine.
技术人员没有说出的真实情况是由于没有先在工作站服务器上测试就进行驱动更新导致了这次蓝屏。
They became concerned by what they had learnt about the environmental damage caused by waste carrier bags.
此后，他们所学的关于废弃手袋所引起的环境破坏的知识让他们变得开始关注这个话题。
Before we can understand what this "noise" is, we need to understand how equipment designed to look for the space-time ripples caused by collisions between black holes and supernova explosions.
在我们探讨所谓的“噪音”之前，我们需要先理解设备是如何去寻找在黑洞和超新星碰撞过程中产生的重力波。
The earthquake's location was in what geologists in the area call the East Seismic Belt, where earthquakes are caused by the collision between the Philippine plate and the Eurasian plate.
地震所处位置发生在当地地震学家称作的东方地震带上。由菲律宾板块和亚欧大陆板块相互挤压而产生。
But the big fear is what might happen to the electrical grid, since power surges caused by solar particles could blow out giant transformers.
但是大的麻烦可能是电网，由太阳粒子导致的电涌会毁掉大型变压器。
Q: China insists that it has no first-hand information on what caused the sinking of the Cheonan ship. What do you mean exactly by "first-hand information"?
问：关于“天安号”沉没的原因，中方一直说不掌握第一手材料，中方指的“第一手材料”到底是什么？
And the implications of that are much bigger: What else is supposedly caused by stress that we can debunk?
潜在的影响还有很多：我们还可以驳斥哪些疾病的压力致病论？
Last week Brazil reimposed a tax on inflows of foreign capital, in what it said was an attempt to slow the appreciation in the real caused by speculative money.
上周，巴西对外国资本流入重新征税，并表示此举是为了放缓投机资金导致的雷亚尔升值。
And what did Snape mean, when he talked about the troubles caused by Harry's mother?
还有斯内普什么意思？他说哈利的妈妈惹了什么麻烦？
So, what is the problem caused by body jitter?
那么，车身抖动是由什么问题引起的呢？
But what was worse was the fact that it was caused by the votes of two southern senators.
但是，什么是糟糕的是，它是由南部两个参议员的票所造成的事实。
If Europe's problems are not only caused by the excesses of financiers (though some bad and stupid behaviour cannot be denied), what can the model-watchers learn from a wider crisis?
如果欧洲的问题不完全是由金融家任意妄为引起的(通过某种不可否认的糟糕而愚蠢的行为)，那么模式观察员能够从一场波及面更广的危机中学到什么？
Much of the panic in August was caused by fear of what Banks had on their books; now the bad news is out, investors can relax.in.
8月的恐慌多数是由担心银行帐目中的债务所造成的；现在坏消息已经出来，投资人能够喘口气了。
Scientists have long been puzzled by what caused a sudden cooling of up to 8C (14F) just as the Earth was warming up at the end of the last ice age.
到底是什么原因使地球在上一个冰河世纪末尾开始转暖时，温度突然骤降了8摄氏度？科学家长久以来一直为这个问题所困扰。
The answer is, this is caused by the history, not what a person or nation can be can solve.
这个回答是，这是历史造成的，不是哪一个人或者哪一个国家能办成能解决的事。
The doctor, knowing that Nick's wound was caused by a gunshot, asks Veronica what happened.
医生看出Nick的伤口是枪击造成的，他问veronica是怎么回事。
The Lotus Sametime client uses what is referred to as jitter buffer management to compensate for any delays that occur in audio transmissions caused by network congestion and disruptions.
LotusSametime客户机使用所谓的抖动缓冲管理（jitter buffer management）补偿因网络拥塞和中断导致的音频传输延迟。
The beauty of the drug is that it should be useful with any disease caused by a nonsense mutation, no matter what its outward effects.
该药的优点在于，它对任何由无意义突变导致的疾病都有效，而不论这些疾病的外在表现是什么。
What if the hum is not caused by the filaments?
如果哼声不是来自灯丝，那我该咋整啊？
What is caused by the use of cosmetics after pigmentation?
是什么原因引起化妆品使用后出现色素沉着呢？
The blaming partner will always tell you that their behaviour was caused by what you said or did.
那个怪罪一方总说他们的行为是因为你说的或做的而引起的。
The blaming partner will always tell you that their behaviour was caused by what you said or did.
那个怪罪一方总说他们的行为是因为你说的或做的而引起的。
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