The book is essentially a taster for those unfamiliar with the subject.
这本书基本上是让那些不熟悉该学科的人对其有个初步的了解。
It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers, and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people.
几个世纪以来人们都认为伟大的作家、作曲家和科学家本质上与常人大不相同。
It is essentially an outdoor shopping area designed just for people on foot.
它本质上就是一个为步行的人设计的户外购物区。
Though humor is essentially social, how you use it says a lot about your sense of self.
尽管幽默本质上是社会性的，但你如何使用它却能反映出你的自我意识。
The expenditure of energy is essentially a process of budgeting, just as finances are budgeted.
能源支出本质上是一个预算编制的过程，就像财务预算一样。
Gastroliths make food easier to digest, essentially smashing food up, just as we do when we chew.
胃石使食物更容易消化，本质上就是粉碎食物，就像我们通过咀嚼来粉碎食物一样。
The Stone was essentially the dictionary that scholars needed to interpret the meaning of the hieroglyphs.
这块石头本质上是一本字典，因为学者们需要借助它来解释象形文字的意思。
In the pediatricians' view, essentially every life skill that's valued in adults can be built up with play.
在儿科医生看来，基本上成年人重视的每一项生活技能都可以通过玩耍来培养。
Though we might think of film as an essentially visual experience, we really cannot afford to underestimate the importance of film sound.
虽然我们可能认为电影本质上是一种视觉体验，但我们真的不能低估电影音效的重要性。
It was once thought that the fungus that ants cultivate was a single type that they had propagated, essentially unchanged from the distant past.
人们曾经认为，蚂蚁培育的真菌是它们繁殖的一种单一品种，自远古时期以来基本上没有改变。
As another returning student at Columbia, Kate Marber, told me, "We are learning not only all this information, but essentially how to learn again."
哥伦比亚大学的另一位返校生凯特·马伯告诉我：“我们不仅在学习所有信息，而且本质上是在学习如何再次学习。”
Increasingly, companies are tapping into these desires directly through what has come to be known as "gamification": essentially, turning work into a game.
越来越多的公司通过所谓的“游戏化”直接利用这些渴望：本质上就是把工作变成游戏。
The orderly nature of our solar system leads most astronomers to conclude that the planets formed at essentially the same time and from the same material as the Sun.
我们太阳系的有序特性使大多数天文学家得出结论，这些行星基本上在同一时间形成，且物质来源和太阳的一样。
First produced in a lab back in 2004, graphene is essentially a single layer of pure carbon atoms bonded together in a honeycomb lattice so thin it's actually considered two-dimensional.
石墨烯最早在2004年诞生于一个实验室，本质上是一层由纯碳原子组成的蜂窝状晶格层，薄到竟被认为是二维物质。
In a 1757 essay, the philosopher David Hume argued that because "the general principles of taste are uniform in human nature", the value of some works of art might be essentially permanent.
哲学家大卫·休谟在1757年的一篇文章中谈到，因为人类的审美具有共同性，所以一些艺术作品的价值可能是永恒的。
Someday we may be able to take any cell and keep it alive functioning and reproducing itself essentially forever through the use of telomerase.
总有一天，我们也许能够利用端粒酶使任何细胞保持活力，使其正常工作并永久地自我复制。
Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of America's great masters of the blues, a musical idiom that's essentially about loss, particularly about the loss of love.
除此之外，查尔斯被认为是美国最伟大的蓝调大师之一，蓝调是一种关于“失去”的音乐风格，尤其是爱情的离去。
It's essentially a reading course.
从本质上说这是一门阅读课。
Hangman is essentially a word-guessing game.
Hangman实质上是一款猜字游戏。
He was essentially a shrewd commanding officer.
他本质上是一位机敏的指挥官。
He explained that rejection is essentially a subjective experience.
他解释说所谓的拒绝其实本质上来看是一种主观感受。
These essentially boil down to performance, cost, and complexity.
这些关键原因可归结为性能、成本及复杂性等方面。
Because our home is the universe, and we are the universe, essentially.
因为我们的家园是宇宙，实质上，我们就是宇宙。
Perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's essentially how it felt to me.
或许我有点夸大其词了，但这确确实实是我的感受。
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