The rim shot after a comic remark is an attempt to simulate--sort of a pre-technological attempt to simulate the sound of laughter.

讲完笑话，紧接着一阵鼓声,也是为了引起…,引起观众大笑的一种原始手段。

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It's a time of technological innovation, tremendous technological innovation, so much technological change that half the time it frightened people.

这还是个技术革新的时代,空前的技术革新,如此多的技术涌现,以至于人们有时候是对其感到恐惧的

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We're going to use that Ampicillin resistance in technological ways and I'll describe that in a minute.

我们将通过技术手段,利用这种氨苄青霉素抗性,马上我就会讲到

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The calorie density has changed because food is processed, so the calories in the fat and the sugar that can get squeezed into things made possible by technological changes has shifted things a lot.

食品经过加工,热量密度发生了变化,添加到食品中的脂肪和糖类,其卡路里含量可通过技术手段进行调整,进而造成很大不同

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From a technological perspective, antibodies are incredible tools because antibodies are molecules that are specifically designed to bind to a particular antigen or a particular chemical.

从技术角度上来说,抗体是一种令人难以置信的分子,它们被设计来,特异性地结合抗原,或者某种化学物质

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