You could, alternatively, hang onto it in the hope that it will be worth millions in 10 years time.
或者，你也可以把它留着，指望它10年后值好几百万。
It could be that the high-functioning mothers in the study had already had a strong influence on their children's speech development.
研究中的高素质的妈妈们很可能已经对她们孩子们的言语发展产生了重要影响。
Parchment is durable, much more so than paper, and it could be reused which came in handy.
羊皮纸很耐用，比纸耐用得多，而且方便的是它可以重复使用。
Having to install a different app for each smart appliance in your home is annoying; it would be nicer if you could manage everything together.
为家里的每个智能设备安装不同的应用程序是一件很烦人的事情；如果你能一起处理所有的事情就好了。
Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time.
汉考克说，对话是否被记录下来并能被重读，以及谈话是否实时发生，也是至关重要的。
It could be fair to nonsmokers to allow smoking in a building with windows that open.
允许在开着窗户的楼房里抽烟对于不抽烟的人来说可能是公平的。
In those far off days it never entered anyone's mind that a woman could be prime minister.
在那些久远的日子里，绝没有人会想到一个女人可以当上首相。
There happens to be a particular urgency in this case, and it would help if you could bend the rules.
这次碰巧有紧急情况，如果你能通融一下将会很有帮助。
Could it be that the Court had set up some sprig of the nobility in his place?
难道朝廷在他的地位上安插了一些贵族的后代？
Could it be that science, which has long played a minor role in exploration, is at last destined to take a leading role?
长期以来在探索过程中一直扮演着次要角色的科学将最终发挥主要作用，是这样吗？
It could be better to improve the public service or cut the price of energy use in daily life.
改善公共服务质量或者是降低日常生活中的能源使用价格可能会更好。
It is perhaps surprising to argue that an employed population could be enticed to move, but an explanation lies in the labor conditions then prevalent in the South.
一个有工作的人口可能会被吸引到别处去，这种说法也许令人吃惊，但一个解释在于当时在南方盛行的劳动条件。
Since nitrogen is four fifths of the air we breathe, they are surprisingly optimistic about raising the temperature on Mars and believe it could be done in hundred years.
由于氮占我们呼吸的空气的五分之四，他们对提高火星的温度持惊人的乐观态度，相信这可以在一百年内完成。
Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images.
最近有研究表明，在检测图像中的乳腺癌方面，它们可以被训练成与人类一样准确。
Each soldier received his pay, but in regions without a developed economy, there was initially little on which it could be spent.
每个士兵都领到了工资，但最初在经济不发达的地区几乎没有什么花钱的地方。
I could understand that he was in a new world but I knew it wouldn't be right to force him, either.
我能理解他进入了一个新的世界，但我知道强迫他也不合适。
If people could go to work by bus or by bike instead of car or motorbike, it would be helpful in fighting against the problem of SO2.
如果人们可以乘公共汽车或骑自行车去上班，而不是乘汽车或骑摩托车，这将有助于对抗二氧化硫的问题。
"Betty said to Bob one day," reads the ad, "wouldn't it be wonderful if we could have a bright and shining kitchen—with everything matching in Monel Metal?"
广告上写道：“有一天，贝蒂对鲍勃说，如果我们拥有一个明亮闪耀的厨房——所有的一切都可以在蒙耐尔金属公司找到，那该多好啊？”
If the ash cloud were to drift in another direction, flights could be sent around or above it.
届时如果火山灰云飘向另一个方向，飞机可能会被指示绕开或在其上方飞行。
It could be days or months, all winter in fact; but see the heart really doesn't need to do any pumping now, because the blood is frozen too.
可能短则几天，长则几个月，甚至整个冬天；不过你看它的心脏现在不怎么需要泵血，因为血液也冻结了。
They say it could be reached by an unmanned spaceship before the end of the century in time for people alive today to see it.
他们说，在本世纪末之前，无人驾驶的宇宙飞船就能到达那里，让今天活着的人们及时看到它。
That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.
这只是受益总面积的一小部分，共约50万英亩，所以优先考虑火灾或干旱风险最大的地区是至关重要的。
As tea could not be grown locally, just as in Britain, it was shipped into the country mostly from India.
由于茶叶不能像在英国那样在当地种植，所以大部分是从印度运来的。
But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time.
但汉考克说，对话是否被记录下来并能被重读，以及谈话是否实时发生，也是至关重要的。
One doctor thinks he has rediscovered an old weapon that could be useful in the fight against these nasties. It is honey.
有一位医生认为，他已重新找到了一种古老的武器，可以用来抵御这些“讨厌的家伙”。这就是蜂蜜。
The timbers that closed the recovered end of the boat had been removed in antiquity when it was abandoned, but much about its original shape could be deduced.
在古代，当船被废弃的时候，用来封闭船的末端的木头已经被清除，但可以推断出其原始形状。
In 1901 he succeeded in signaling across the Atlantic, from the west coast of England to Newfoundland in the USA, despite the claims of science that it could not be done.
1901年，尽管科学界声称这是不可能的，他仍成功地跨越大西洋发出信号，从英格兰西海岸发射，一直到美国的纽芬兰。
If a pot has no bottom or has large openings in its sides, it could hardly be considered a container in any traditional sense.
如果一个罐子没有底部，或者在它的侧面有很大的开口，那么它就很难被认为是传统意义上的容器。
If rocks become embedded in ice, could a piece of ice with rocks in it be pushed around by the wind?
如果岩石嵌在冰里，一块嵌着岩石的冰会被风吹动吗？
The body of extant scholarship on Griffith was so tiny that it could all be read in a day.
现存的关于格里菲斯的学术论文太少了，一天之内就能读完。
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