A lot of their work comes down to measurement—everything from the exact angle of a swimmer's dive to the second-by-second power output of a cyclist.
他们的许多工作都归结于测量——从游泳运动员跳水的准确角度，到自行车运动员每秒的动力输出。
"It's like baking a cake: If you don't have exact amounts, it goes wrong," she says.
她说：“这就像是做蛋糕：如果没有精确的用量，就会出错。”
Disasters also exact a devastating economic toll.
自然灾害也造成了毁灭性的经济损失。
Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they exact a cost that must be paid.
错误的价值在很大程度上体现为人们必须为所犯的错误付出代价。
Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they exact a cost which must be paid.
错误的价值在很大程度上体现为人们必须为所犯的错误付出代价。
Measuring appeal is as exact a science as guessing the number of sweets in a jar at the fairground.
对吸引力的衡量就像猜测露天游乐场中一个罐子里有多少糖果一样充满“技术性”。
"It's just not that exact a science," says Parrish, who knows more about hurricanes than most people do.
“这不完全是一门科学，”帕里什说，他比大多数人更了解飓风。
The bottom line: Excelling at this style of humor may lead to party invitations but can ultimately exact a high price.
概要：擅长这种幽默可能带来许多聚会邀请，但最终还得付出很高的代价。
Since the market is more or less efficient, it tends to exact a higher price for higher quality and a lower price for lower quality.
由于市场是更多或更少效率，它往往精确更高的价格，更高的质量和较低的价格为低质量。
Fifthly, let us also remind ourselves that threats of a non-economic kind and events of a non-economic kind can exact a fearful economic price.
最后，我们还要提醒自己：非经济性威胁和非经济性事件也会导致严重的经济后果。
With so many people living so close together in buildings that were not built to withstand intense shaking, an earthquake can exact a heavy toll.
这麽多人密密麻麻地住在无法承受强烈震动的房子里，一场地震的确能造成很高的死亡率。
But they could exact a high price: they are long-standing advocates of a proportional voting system, which would boost them but could damage the two big parties.
但他们的要价不会低，比如他们会要求进行比例选举，这对他们有利而会减少两大党的票数。
The nation's economy is being battered from all sides, new data show, as labor markets weaken, rising prices exact a heavy toll and anxious consumers cut back on spending.
新的经济数据显示，美国经济已是遍体鳞伤。在就业市场低迷和物价上涨等阴云笼罩下，惊慌失措的消费者只得捂紧自己的钱包。
This question is made more pointed by the mounting evidence that pandemics can exact a large economic toll on both individual countries and the world as a whole (see article).
越来越多的证据表明，不论是对单个的国家还是将全世界看做一个整体，全球性流感疫情无疑将耗费巨大经济代价，从而使这个问题变得更加棘手。
New public-health studies and laboratory experiments suggest that, at every stage of life, traffic fumes exact a measurable toll on mental capacity, intelligence and emotional stability.
最新的公共卫生研究和实验室实验表明，在生命的每个阶段，汽车废气都会对人的心智能力、智力和情感稳定能力造成一定程度的损害。
The last two clauses were an exact quote rather than a paraphrase of Mr. Forth's remarks.
最后两个分句是对福思先生言论的准确引用而不是改述。
At the moment, we don't have exact numbers of guests and though we usually only cater for groups of less than fifty, we will have quite a few more than that.
目前我们没有确切的客人人数。虽然我们通常只接待50人以下的团体，但我们这次将迎来更多的客人。
In fact, acquiring the exact meaning of number words is a painstaking process that takes children years.
事实上，掌握数字单词的确切含义是一个艰苦的过程，需要花费孩子数年的时间。
If you want to search the library holdings and don't know the author's name or the exact title of the book or an article, you have to set up a keyword search.
如果你想搜索图书馆藏书，却不知道作者的名字、书名或文章的确切名称，你必须设置关键字查询。
The authors want to deduce a brief formulation, and use all-purpose program to get exact result for echelon, rectangle and rotundity cross section.
作者想推导简短的公式，对梯形、矩形和圆形断面采用通用的程序，以得到准确的结果。
Have you noticed some people don't bother to check the exact signature before sending a text message?
你有没有注意到有些人在发短信前不愿意费心去核对签名是否正确？
Hutch Carpenter, almost Weinberg's exact opposite as an enterprise engineering platform executive and a dad in San Francisco, says he sees it that way too.
旧金山的哈奇·卡彭特（Hutch Carpenter ）是一家企业的工程平台主管，已经当了爸爸，正好跟温伯格相对，他说他也是这样认为的。
His experiments resulted in a new style that was almost exactly opposite the exact technique of the time.
他的实验产生了一种几乎与当时的技术完全相反的新风格。
In the rare chance that there is a microorganism that can make you sick on the exact spot where the food dropped, you can be fairly sure that the bug is on the food you are about to put in your mouth.
极少数情况下，有一种微生物可以在食物掉落的那一刻让你生病，你可以十分确定这种细菌就在你准备放进嘴里的食物上。
Others are impossible to search because you can't remember a name or an exact year.
另一些是搜索不到的，因为你不记得名字或确切的年份。
When you come across such words, check a dictionary to confirm their exact pronunciations.
当你遇到这样的单词时，查字典确认它们的准确发音。
We were first greeted with the barking by a pack of dogs, seven to be exact.
首先迎接我们的是一群狗的叫声，确切来说有7只。
No one keeps an exact count, but rough calculations based on the government's survey suggest that perhaps 1,600 American public and private schools are teaching Chinese, up from 300 or so a decade ago.
没有人知道确切的数字，但是根据政府的调查，粗略计算之后显示，大约有1600所美国公立和私立学校在教授中文，而十年前只有300所左右。
Unfortunately, there is no single questionnaire that determines a project's exact persistence needs.
不幸地是，没有一份调查表可以确定项目确切的持久性需要。
Unfortunately, there is no single questionnaire that determines a project's exact persistence needs.
不幸地是，没有一份调查表可以确定项目确切的持久性需要。
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