Having neglected its roads, bridges, water treatment plants and more over the years, the United States is bound to generate a greater payback for such spending than would Japan.
美国人常年忽略道路、桥梁和食水处理厂等等的建设，因此他们花的钱一定会比日本人收到更好的回报。
Though there are more eatable plants, there may also be wild animals, poisonous snakes, and other hazards.
虽然沿途有更多的可食用植物，但同时也可能有野兽、毒蛇和其他的危险。
The poor soil of bogs, for example, offers little nitrogen and phosphorus, so carnivorous plants enjoy an advantage over plants that obtain these nutrients by more conventional means.
例如，沼泽贫瘠的土壤提供的氮和磷很少，所以肉食植物比那些通过更传统的方式获得这些营养的植物更有优势。
Going up one more floor, visitors can see a working beehive, live snakes, stuffed fish and birds, and many other displays of Kansas plants and animals.
再往上一层，游客可以看到一个工作的蜂箱，活蛇，填饱了的鱼和鸟，还有许多堪萨斯州的植物和动物。
When plants first made the transition ashore more than 400 million years ago, the land was barren and desolate, inhospitable to life.
4亿多年前，植物第一次向海岸上迁移时，陆地上荒凉而贫瘠，并非生命宜居之地。
To prevent more farmers from changing, researchers at the newly opened International Cocoa Control Centre, in the UK, are trying to create new cocoa plants that are stronger and faster growing.
为了防止更多的农民改变种植方式，英国新成立的国际可可控制中心（InternationalCocoa Control Centre）的研究人员正在尝试种植更强壮、生长更快的可可树。
It has much more protein and oil than many other plants.
它比许多其他植物含有更多的蛋白质和油脂。
This can lead us on a downward spiral with more and more plants and animals becoming endangered as well.
这可能导致我们进入一个恶性循环，即越来越多的植物和动物也濒临灭绝。
There the air absorbs more moisture, which then condenses on a metal wall cooled by seawater, and thus distilled water for irrigating the plants collects.
在那里，空气吸收了更多的水分，然后将水分凝结在由海水冷却的金属壁上，从而收集用于灌溉植物的蒸馏水。
Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi, in the form of carbon dioxide, and converting it to energy-rich sugars.
植物比真菌更能有效地以二氧化碳的形式吸收碳，并将其转化为富含能量的糖类。
Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of colors.
一些人可能认为花园只是植物，花朵，形状和大量的颜色。
Unlike the oligosaccharins, the five well-known plant hormones are pleiotropic rather than specific; that is, each has more than one effect on the growth and development of plants.
与氨基寡糖素不同，这五种众所周知的植物激素是多效性的，而不是特异性的；也就是说，每一种对植物的生长发育都有不止一种作用。
Holocene sediments contain remnants of more recent plants and animals, so it's pretty easy to differentiate geologically between these two Epochs.
全新世的沉积物中含有较新的动植物遗迹，因此很容易从地质学上区分这两个时期。
These microbes enable the soil to have more nitrogen, which plants need to live and they remain quite active during the winter.
这些微生物可以让土壤中植物生长所需的氮含量增加，在冬天让植物仍保持活跃。
When the plants had more light, the stems turned up and the roots went down.
当光照充足时，植物的茎向上生长，根向下生长。
Scientists think this is the plants' way to prevent the spread of any tree diseases and make life more difficult for leaf-eating insects like caterpillars.
科学家认为，这是植物防止树木疾病传播的方法，并给像毛毛虫之类的食叶昆虫制造些生存上的困难。
By tinkering with the clocks of plants and animals, scientists may learn more about the fascinating way our bodies work.
通过调整植物和动物的生物钟，科学家们可以更多了解我们身体运作的神秘方式。
The pump is driven by phytoplankton, the tiny plants that constantly convert sunlight and CO2 into more plants, half of which die or are eaten by zooplankton.
生物泵被浮游植物所驱动，这些微小的植物不断地将阳光和CO2转化成更多的浮游植物，它们有一半将死掉或被浮游动物吃掉。
Laboratory tests showed that glucose and fructose - a type of sugar found in plants - stimulated bugs and made them more vulnerable to drug treatments.
实验研究显示，葡萄糖和果糖——植物中所含的一种糖类——可刺激病原体并使它们对药物作用更敏感。
We should thus eat plants more directly, to reduce harm to both plants and animals. (2) If plants feel more 'pain' than animals, should we eat less plants?
因此，我们应该不吃肉食而直接食素，以减少对植物和动物的伤害。2如果植物比动物的痛感更强烈，我们是否应该少吃素呢？
Their findings could help to engineer plants that grow better and more effectively in conditions with higher levels of carbon dioxide.
他们的发现有助于那些在高二氧化碳浓度的环境中生长的更好更快的植物的种植。
Russia is building six new nuclear power plants and has plans for more. It also recently signed an agreement with Belarus to build one there.
俄国正在建立第六个核电站并计划拥有更多核电站。另外，俄国最近还签订协议在白俄罗斯建立一个核电站。
Unit 2 More insects and plants.
单元二好多昆虫和植物。
Rolls-Royce (Laosi-Laisi) includes two Chinese characters for “labor” and “plants” that more or less have become standard usage in foreign names — all to achieve a distinct foreign look and sound.
Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）包含了“劳动”和“植物”两个中文文字，多多少少成为外国名字的标准用法-所有这些都在外形和发音保留了原汁原味的外国气息。
The apparent perfection of plants and animals may be more a reflection of our poor imaginations than of reality.
貌似完美的各种动植物可能倒是人类想象力比真实事物更可怜的反映。
Typically each one of these plants have,and if it's more than one reactor.
通常来说，每一个电站都有,假如它有不止一个反应堆。
Airports and seaports, power plants, pipelines, tunnels, roads and rail systems, mines and more - you name it, Bechtel has built it.
机场和港口，电厂，管道，隧道，铁路以及铁路系统，矿场等等——但凡你想得到的建筑，柏克德都建过。
Take away that variety, and we'll lose more than honey.Many flowering plants would disappear, and with them apples, peaches, pears, and a host of other crops.
如果多元化缺失，人类失去的将不仅仅只是蜂蜜，很多开花植物都将消失，苹果、桃子、梨子和很多其他农作物随之不复存在。
Take away that variety, and we'll lose more than honey.Many flowering plants would disappear, and with them apples, peaches, pears, and a host of other crops.
如果多元化缺失，人类失去的将不仅仅只是蜂蜜，很多开花植物都将消失，苹果、桃子、梨子和很多其他农作物随之不复存在。
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