"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

There is a Darwinian semiotics, understanding the relationships among species in semiotic terms.

达尔文主义的符号学，用符号学来研究物种间的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So we'll have an iron oxide species. It's a solid.

那么我们有氧化铁，它是固体。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

He says this has worked in Bolivia, which has a huge population of yacare,a species of crocodile.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

You're taking advantage of a promoter system, or a gene activation system, that this species knows about because adult animals can make milk.

我们之所以能利用这个启动子系统,或者称之为可以被这一物种识别的,基因活化系统,是因为成年动物可以泌乳

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"So when you destroy an individual's ability to communicate, you have really destroyed one of the most important aspects that we have as a species."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

Notice the importance -and we'll come back to it-- of the word "dominant": "the dominant" in the thinking of the Russian formalists and the struggle for dominance among species in a habitat.

注意这个词的重要性,我们还会讲到，支配，这个词：,俄国形式主义者所说的支配,和物种间争夺栖息地的支配。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As a result of the study, eleven species of mangrove have been placed on the Red List of Threatened Species.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

There has never been a regime in history that was so single-mindedly devoted to the end of producing that rarest and most difficult species of humanity called simply philosopher.

历史上从没有一个政体,会如此专一地致力于,催生最稀有,最难得的人类物种,即哲学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In a separate project, scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral in deep waters near the Hawaiian Islands.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

It only works within species. So, in another experiment they put a rabbit in the other room and the chimpanzee would slap the lever repeatedly to make the rabbit scream in pain and jump.

这种结果只出现在同种动物上，在另一个实验里,他们在另一个房间放一只兔子,结果黑猩猩不停地拍杠杆,让兔子痛得上跳下窜，大声尖叫。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

One of the rarest species of mangrove tree grows in just a few places in East Asia and India.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

This was something we could not predict using Lewis structures, but we can predict using MO theory that we have a radical species here.

这是我们从Lewis结构里不能预测的，但我们可以用分子轨道理论,预测自由基。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

As a result,the report says, the rate of plant and animal species disappearing is continuing faster than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Those animals that you produce are called transgenic animals because they're expressing, usually at high levels, a transgene or a gene that's not normally present in their species.

那么这些小鼠就称为转基因动物,因为转基因动物,通常能高效地,表达转基因,即一个通常不存在于该物种的基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It is a place where plants and animals from the Caribbean Sea share an ecosystem with native North American species.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Aristotle's political science presupposes in other words a certain conception of human beings as linguistic animals who are capable not only of living together -so do a range of other species -but rather sharing in the arrangements of rule.

亚里士多德的政治科学,预设一种特定的概念,即人类是能言语的动物,我们不只能生活在一起,像其它很多动物一般,还能共享规范的安排。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The researchers have developed a way to make genetic changes in the three mosquito species known to spread malaria.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It is our logos our reason that makes a community possible and also expresses or creates you could say a certain latitude or indeterminacy in how our behavior distinguishes us from other species.

那是我们的，Logos，我们的理性,使社群成为一种可能,并能表达或创造出,一种可说是转圜或不确定,存在于我们的行为之中,让我们有别于其它物种。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The gene was found in eleven bacterial species, including those that cause cholera and dysentery, a diarrheal disease.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

They might have come from two completely different places, from two completely different species from different parts of the world, and they're put together in a new way and that's why it's called recombinant DNA.

它们也许来自两个完全不同的地方,来自世界上不同地区的两个完全不同的物种,以新的方式组合在一起,所以它被称作重组DNA

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Their ancient languages contain a great deal of information about environmental systems and species of plants and animals that are unknown to scientists.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

You have to be able to get the DNA into the cell, it has to be incorporated into a vector of some sort, and the vector has to be compatible with the species and the cells that you've provided the DNA to.

你必须把整合在,某种特定载体上的DNA导入细胞,载体也必须和,受体物种,及细胞匹配

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We will also tell about a project that scientists hope will protect an endangered species of frogs.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

As early as eighteen thirty-seven, he imagined this process as a tree with branches representing new species.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

His team used a method called transient gene silencing to change the genetic structure of the three mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Instead,it belonged to a tyrannosaurid species that lived many millions of years before its T.Rex relative.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

In two thousand six, scientific census-takers found a hairy new species of crab near Easter Island.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

The scientists believe that six of the species may represent a completely new kind of coral.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

There are four kinds of echidnas: three species are long-nosed, while another has a short nose.

VOA: special.2009.07.07