A lot of their work comes down to measurement—everything from the exact angle of a swimmer's dive to the second-by-second power output of a cyclist.
他们的许多工作都归结于测量——从游泳运动员跳水的准确角度，到自行车运动员每秒的动力输出。
She was determined to exact a promise from him.
她决意要他作出许诺。
She uses the media to help her exact a terrible revenge.
她利用媒体帮助她实施一次可怕的报复。
它和枪支一样精确。
They are as exact as possible; there is not a fault in them, if they did not melt!
它们极其精巧；只要它们不融化，那它们就没有缺点！
"It's like baking a cake: If you don't have exact amounts, it goes wrong," she says.
她说：“这就像是做蛋糕：如果没有精确的用量，就会出错。”
Disasters also exact a devastating economic toll.
自然灾害也造成了毁灭性的经济损失。
Motherhood and domestic responsibilities still exact a steep penalty.
现如今，母性身份和家庭责任使得女性依旧处在劣势之中。
They, too, would be likely to exact a high price for their cooperation.
他们也可能会为提供合作而索要高价。
Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they exact a cost that must be paid.
错误的价值在很大程度上体现为人们必须为所犯的错误付出代价。
Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they exact a cost which must be paid.
错误的价值在很大程度上体现为人们必须为所犯的错误付出代价。
Measuring appeal is as exact a science as guessing the number of sweets in a jar at the fairground.
对吸引力的衡量就像猜测露天游乐场中一个罐子里有多少糖果一样充满“技术性”。
"It's just not that exact a science," says Parrish, who knows more about hurricanes than most people do.
“这不完全是一门科学，”帕里什说，他比大多数人更了解飓风。
The bottom line: Excelling at this style of humor may lead to party invitations but can ultimately exact a high price.
概要：擅长这种幽默可能带来许多聚会邀请，但最终还得付出很高的代价。
Since the market is more or less efficient, it tends to exact a higher price for higher quality and a lower price for lower quality.
由于市场是更多或更少效率，它往往精确更高的价格，更高的质量和较低的价格为低质量。
Before you leave this house, I must exact a promise from you, that you'll get me an interview with her: consent or refuse, I will see her!
在你离开这所房子之前，我一定要你答应，你要让我见她一面：答应也好，拒绝也好，我一定要见她！
Fifthly, let us also remind ourselves that threats of a non-economic kind and events of a non-economic kind can exact a fearful economic price.
最后，我们还要提醒自己：非经济性威胁和非经济性事件也会导致严重的经济后果。
With so many people living so close together in buildings that were not built to withstand intense shaking, an earthquake can exact a heavy toll.
这麽多人密密麻麻地住在无法承受强烈震动的房子里，一场地震的确能造成很高的死亡率。
But they could exact a high price: they are long-standing advocates of a proportional voting system, which would boost them but could damage the two big parties.
但他们的要价不会低，比如他们会要求进行比例选举，这对他们有利而会减少两大党的票数。
The nation's economy is being battered from all sides, new data show, as labor markets weaken, rising prices exact a heavy toll and anxious consumers cut back on spending.
新的经济数据显示，美国经济已是遍体鳞伤。在就业市场低迷和物价上涨等阴云笼罩下，惊慌失措的消费者只得捂紧自己的钱包。
This question is made more pointed by the mounting evidence that pandemics can exact a large economic toll on both individual countries and the world as a whole (see article).
越来越多的证据表明，不论是对单个的国家还是将全世界看做一个整体，全球性流感疫情无疑将耗费巨大经济代价，从而使这个问题变得更加棘手。
New public-health studies and laboratory experiments suggest that, at every stage of life, traffic fumes exact a measurable toll on mental capacity, intelligence and emotional stability.
最新的公共卫生研究和实验室实验表明，在生命的每个阶段，汽车废气都会对人的心智能力、智力和情感稳定能力造成一定程度的损害。
The last two clauses were an exact quote rather than a paraphrase of Mr. Forth's remarks.
最后两个分句是对福思先生言论的准确引用而不是改述。
At the moment, we don't have exact numbers of guests and though we usually only cater for groups of less than fifty, we will have quite a few more than that.
目前我们没有确切的客人人数。虽然我们通常只接待50人以下的团体，但我们这次将迎来更多的客人。
The data is exact enough for a clear trend to be easily discernible.
数据是足够准确的，很容易辨别出一个清晰的趋势。
The data is exact enough, for a clear trend to be easily discernible.
数据是足够准确的，能够轻易辨别一个清晰的趋势。
In fact, acquiring the exact meaning of number words is a painstaking process that takes children years.
事实上，掌握数字单词的确切含义是一个艰苦的过程，需要花费孩子数年的时间。
So a gene usually cannot be passed on, unless it's an exact copy.
因此基因经常不能传递下去，除非是准确的复制。
A small number – five, to be exact – have been bad.
一个小数目–确切地说是5–已经很糟了。
I've found a vase that is an exact match of the one I broke.
我找到了一只花瓶，和我打碎的那个一模一样。
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