You wouldn't use a hammer to cut a two-by-four, but we often attempt to use money to achieve things for which it wasn't designed.
我们不会用锤子来切割木板，但我们却经常试图用金钱来做一些它用途之外的事情。
Analysis by gel electrophoresis revealed slight differences in amino acid sequence of the enzymes of two of the four pairs.
经凝胶电泳分析，发现四对实验对象中有两对的酶的氨基酸序列略有差异。
Then I'd like to fly to Denver for a stay of two nights. I want to go on to Los Angeles by plane for an indefinite stay of three or four days.
然后，我乘飞机到丹佛，在那儿待两个晚上，最后乘飞机到洛杉矶，在那儿待3天或4天。
The statement, issued by a spokesman for Schwarzenegger, said the two were working on the future of their relationship while living apart and would continue to parent their four children together.
这份声明由施瓦辛格的一位发言人发布，其中写道，两人在分居期间将安排好将来的关系，并继续共同抚养4名子女。
China is running out of children to look after the elderly, a state of affairs often summed up by the formula "4-2-1" : four grandparents, two parents, one child.
中国赡养老人的孩子快不够了，如今一家三代成员的总体情况可以用这样一个“4-2-1”的公式来概括，即四个(外)祖父母、两个父母和一个孩子。
There have now been four interest rate cuts in two and a half months, reflecting a shift by policymakers from tackling inflation to supporting growth.
至今为止，两个半月之内已经有四次降息行动了，这反映主管部门已将政策重点从压抑通胀转向保证增长。
Up until two years ago, the school located in the savannah, west of the Tabasco state capital of Villahermosa, consisted of four palapas, which were continuously hit by bad weather.
而在两年前，这所坐落在塔巴斯科州州府Villahermosa西部平原的学校还以四座“帕拉帕”作为教室，持续遭到恶劣天气的极大影响。
When they had once got it by heart the sheep developed a great liking for this maxim, and often as they lay in the field they would all start bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad!
绵羊刚一熟记这一法则，就对它非常喜欢，经常躺在地上咩咩的叫“四条腿好，两条腿坏！
The new ship will be powered by two gas turbines and four diesel engines.
那艘新轮船将由2台燃气涡轮机和4台柴油机驱动。
Figure 1 shows four storage servers that manage the storage provided by two disk subsystems.
图1显示了四个存储服务器，可管理由两个磁盘子系统提供的存储。
I was rescued two hours later by four of my staff.
两个小时后，我的四名部属赶到救了我。
Badminton can be played by two or four people.
羽毛球可由两人或四人来打。
The four vessels were then reinforced by two Type 037 (Hainan class) antisubmarine patrol crafts (hull 281 and 282).
四艘舰艇随后被二艘037型(海南级)反潜巡逻艇增援(弦号281和282)。
A game, especially a golf match, played by four persons, two on each side.
四人对抗赛四人玩的游戏，尤指高尔夫球赛中的双打，每边两人。
A study by Berninger found that in grades two, four, and six, children wrote more words, faster, and expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand than when typing on a keyboard.
贝尔宁格的研究发现，二年级、四年级以及六年级的孩子，与打字相比，他们手写的单词量更大，速度更快，并能表达更复杂的思想。
If you have to cover 12 chapters in American history, begin by planning on three two-hour reviews with four chapters per session.
如果你必须涵盖美国史的12个章节，首先计划3次2小时的复习，每次4章。
The question, then: Why stand and walk on two legs when our ape Cousins get by on four limbs?
问题就随之而来了：为什么在我们的类人猿亲戚们还在用四肢行走的时候，我们就已经直立并用两足行走呢？
Having all four disruptions brought forward the age of first pregnancy by around two years.
四种干扰均存在的话，初次怀孕年龄会提前两年左右。
A human heart, by contrast, has four chambers. Two of these pump blood to the lungs, where it picks up oxygen, then the other two pump this oxygenated blood throughout the body.
相比之下，人的心脏只有四个心室，其中的两个心室收缩将血液压进动脉输送到肺部，在那里吸收氧气，放出二氧化碳，而另两个心室则将完成气体交换后的血液输送到到全身。
An official described the compound as having "extraordinary" security measures, including two security gates and walls three to four meters high topped by barbed wire.
一位官员称那个建筑备有“特殊”的保安措施，其中包括两道安全门和三、四米高的围墙，上面设有铁丝网。
Jools Oliver, a former model, has a family of four with her chef husband Jamie, while actress Reese Witherspoon had two children by the age of 27.
曾做过模特的朱尔斯·奥利弗和她的大厨丈夫杰米生育了四个小孩，而女演员瑞茜·威瑟斯彭在27岁前就有了两个小孩。
On its top, however, it has two pads, each with 16 pins arranged in a four-by-four array.
在该装置的顶部，它有两个感应区，每一区域有16根感应针，并以4乘4的方式排列。
Studies reveal that using MDD practices can improve productivity by a factor of two to four, compared to traditional document-driven and code-centric development (see Resources).
研究显示，与传统的文档驱动和以代码为中心的开发相比(请参见参考资料)，使用MDD实践可以使工作效率提高两到四倍。
The Educational Testing Service, which designs the exam, had already delayed planned revisions by a year, including lengthening the exam from two-and-a-half to four hours.
{2}设计该项考试的美国教育考试服务中心已经将这一修改计划延迟了达一年之久，修改计划包括将考试时间从两个半小时延长至四个小时。
The Educational Testing Service, which designs the exam, had already delayed planned revisions by a year, including lengthening the exam from two-and-a-half to four hours.
{2}设计该项考试的美国教育考试服务中心已经将这一修改计划延迟了达一年之久，修改计划包括将考试时间从两个半小时延长至四个小时。
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