In contrast, the roots of grasses and other small plants may help to hold loose soil fragments together, thereby helping to prevent erosion by the wind.
相反，草和其他小植物的根可能有助于把松散的土壤碎片固定在一起，从而助于防止风的侵蚀。
For example, birds may expend more of their reserves on thermoregulation if they spend the night exposed to the wind on a song post than if they are in a sheltered roost site.
例如，与在有遮挡的栖息地的鸟类相比，如果鸟类在风中露宿一晚，它们可能会更多地利用体温调节。
Politicians may have calculated that a few nuclear-power stations will be easier to sell the public than thousands of wind turbines.
政客们也许会盘算，比起成千个的风力涡轮发电机，几个核电站更容易得到大众的认可。
The U.S. may have as good a chance as anyone of being a strong player in nascent industries, whether next-generation wind turbines, medical devices with nano-scale sensors, or electric cars.
在新生行业中，无论是下一代的风力涡轮机、带有纳米级感应器的医疗器械抑或电动汽车，美国与其它国家具有同等机会成为一个有实力的玩家。
Others are more hopeful: tumbling costs of wind and solar energy suggest it may soon be competitive with little or no subsidy.
另一些是更有希望的：突然大幅降低的风能和太阳能成本表明它也许很快就能在很少或没有补贴的情况下具有竞争力。
If you win some major programs, you may basically put other companies out of business as you may wind up with a diminishing industry.
如果你赢到了一些很大的项目，你会把其他的公司的饭碗抢走，行业的规模会逐渐减小。
Three, the longer it takes to stabilise, the more lasting damage wind- and waterborne radiation may do to the livelihoods of the farmers and fishermen who are the economic lifeblood of the community.
第三，用于稳定核电站的时间越长，所产生持续的伤害存在的时间也就越长，同样的，水性辐射可能影响到农民和渔民的营生，他们可是这个城市的经济命脉。
Wind speed and direction will affect arrival time of fallout; precipitation may wash fallout from the atmosphere.
风速和风向会影响放射性尘粒到达的时间；冰雹则能带出空气中的放射性尘降物。
A more of the world dries out and deserts expand, wind may pick up more dust into the atmosphere.
随着土地干旱、沙漠化面积增大，更多沙尘被风带进大气层。
Girls may think the shy teen boy is nice because he's not macho, for example, or the shy kids wind up on the school newspaper so they can write instead of do public speaking.
例如，女孩子们也许会觉得十几岁的害羞男孩挺好的，因为他还不是一个男子汉；或者为校报做事情的害羞孩子可以写文章而不必在公众面前演讲。
So if you wind down your career too early out of concern for a future child, you may not have much to go back to once you have that baby.
因此，如果为了以后生孩子而过早地对工作懈怠，那么一旦生完孩子你也许就没那么大的动力回去工作了。
The latest innovation may wind up having the biggest impact of all: a crackdown on workers' poor health habits involving both the carrot and the (cancer) stick.
最近的革新可能会掀起一次极大的冲击：遏制员工恶劣的健康习惯，其中包括蜜糖加大棒政策。
Much of what we do to wind down may relax the body, but the mind is still ticking over.
大多数的时候我们能放松我们的身体，但是大脑却依然在慢慢地运转。
He added that the activity levels of queen bumble bees and the lifespan of flowers may be highly sensitive to air temperatures, sunshine, precipitation and wind.
他又补充说，蜂王的活跃程度与花的寿命可能对气温，日照，降水和风的影响非常敏感。
In addition, many of the nodes are powered by small wind turbines and solar cells, which may be able to power them indefinitely.
另外，许多节点是由小型风力发电机和太阳能电池供电，它们能无限地供电给节点。
More pressure to shrink may come from an insistence that banks demonstrate regularly how they would wind down their affairs in an orderly manner in the event of failure.
缩减银行数量的其他压力来自要求银行业在万一出现业务失败的时候，控制好自己的所作所为这一主张。
Fallout from a nuclear explosion may be carried by wind currents for hundreds of miles if the right conditions exist.
如果条件存在，核爆产生的放射性尘降物会随风漂移数百英里。
For example, when tree leaves are blowing in the wind, the leaves may appear to artificially shimmer at the edges of the leaves.
比如当画面上的树叶在亮色天空背景下摇曳时，叶片的边缘部分会出现光点。
While some people may get lucky and just happen to wind up on the road to success, others do not, and their lack of planning leads to a dead-end job.
虽然有些人也许会幸运地踏上成功的道路；而另一些人却没有，他们的缺乏规划导致工作走进了死胡同。
You may have heard of windfall tax. But how about taxing the wind that rises?
也许你听说过“暴利税”，但是听说过“亏本税”吗？
"The northern part of the U.S. into Canada may see an increase" in peak wind speeds, Pryor says, "whereas the southern regions may see a decline."
“美国北部和加拿接壤处地区的风速可能会提高。”普莱尔说，“然而，南部地区的风速可能减缓。”
If you've been following Groovy for any amount of time, whether you've been reading articles and blogs or writing code yourself, you may have gotten wind of one or two subtle issues with the language.
如果您一直在跟踪groovy，不管是阅读文章和blog，还是自己编写代码，您都可能已经遭遇过这门语言的一、两个微妙的问题。
A series of tests to do that were conducted on a UH-60A Blackhawk helicopter rotor in a NASA wind tunnel from January to May 2010.
而一系列试验将于2010年1月至3月NASA的风洞中、在一个UH - 60A黑鹰直升机的转子上进行。
The scoop: Michael and Bernice Gonzalez were included in our article "Pirate Sales Catch Wind" in May, as an example of a pirate-themed shop.
独家新闻：今年5月份，作为一个海盗主题商店案例，我们在《海盗销售迎风追上》一文中介绍了迈克尔和波妮丝•萨雷斯。
The scoop: Michael and Bernice Gonzalez were included in our article "Pirate Sales Catch Wind" in May, as an example of a pirate-themed shop.
独家新闻：今年5月份，作为一个海盗主题商店案例，我们在《海盗销售迎风追上》一文中介绍了迈克尔和波妮丝•萨雷斯。
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