The students were questioned on the books they had been studying.
学生被问到有关他们所学课本内容的问题。
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help blind and deaf people and she knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's palm.
克拉拉在过去的一年里一直在学习美国手语，以帮助盲人和聋人，她知道她可以在这个人的手掌上拼写。
As I had been studying rare earth for many years, I have a say over this issue.
我从事稀土研究多年，在这个问题上有发言权。
I had been studying very hard to get my first degree and the Master's degree.
我一直在努力地学习去获得学士学位和硕士学位。
He had been studying so diligently for his exams and was really glad to get them over with.
为了考试，她始终很用功读书，他很高兴考试终于结束了。
When her mother returned from USA, she had been studying in the University for two semesters.
当她母亲从美国回来时，她在这所大学里已读了两个学期。
Chemists had been studying the atmosphere for about two thousand years before its composition was discovered.
化学家们一直在研究大气，研究了约两千年，它的组成才被发现。
The children had been studying the growth of plants, and they had planted four POTS of beans a few weeks before.
孩子们研究了植物的成长，并且他们几个星期前种了四盆豆子。
For two weeks, he had been studying the house, looking at its room, its electric wiring, its path and its garden.
两个星期以来，他一直注意房子的情况，查看各个房间、留心电路的走向以及通道和花园的布局。
My friend gave me a knowing wink when I told my parents I had been studying all evening. He knew I had been at the KTV.
我告诉我父母我一晚上都在学习时，我朋友朝我眨了眨眼，露出那种他什么都知道的表情。他知道其实我是去KTV唱歌了。
Scientists at the US space agency had been studying the chemical changes that occur when rocks are under extreme stress.
美国太空总署的科学家们曾经研究过岩石处于极高压力下所发生的化学变化。
The story goes that he had been studying Staphylococcus bacteria and went away on holiday (I think his honeymoon) for two weeks.
事情是这样发生的：之前，他都一直从事于葡萄球菌(Staphylococcus)的研究。一次放假(我觉得是他的蜜月)，他离开了两周。
Then he realised the stroke was localised to the exact part of the brain he had been studying experimentally in his sleep research with cats.
接着他想到得中风的脑部位置正好是他拿猫做睡眠研究时的脑部位置。
Even though Sedat had been studying English for three years before he came to the United States, it is still difficult for him to express himself.
虽然塞丹特来美国之前已学了三年英语，但他在表达上仍有困难。
During the winter holiday, the teenagers couldn't wait to take part in kinds of activities for they had been studying for a long time without any rest.
寒假期间，青年人迫不及待的去参加各种各样的活动，因为他们已经学了很长一段时间而没有休息。
I explained that I had been studying theoretical computer science and mathematics at a high-level for the past decade, much of it spent right here at MIT.
我曾说过在过去十年我学过高等理论计算机科学和数学，大部分时间正是在MIT。
He wrote to me and he said that he had been studying my career, and I undermined his entire life's work and I've lost not one but two levels of his confidence.
他写信给我，告诉我,他一直在关注我的工作，而我颠覆了他毕生的心血,我极大地打击了他的自信心。
The drugs the scientists had been studying are antibiotics that attack a subunit of the malaria parasite called the apicoplast, which has some similarities with bacteria.
科学家一直在研究的这些药物是一些抗菌素，它们可以对名叫质体样细胞器的疟疾寄生虫的亚单元进行攻击，这与细菌有些类似。
When Murdoch was 22, his father died, prompting the son to return to Australia from the U.K. (where he had been studying at Oxford University) and take over the family business.
在默多克22岁时，老默多克去世了，这迫使小默多克从正在留学的英国牛津大学回到澳大利亚来继承家业。
Partly funded by WCS, wildlife biologist Kashmira Kakati had been studying the gibbons of Jeypore-Dehing and became curious about the predator tracks she kept finding on the ground.
在WCS的部分资金支持下，野生动物学家卡什·米拉·卡卡蒂(Kashmira Kakati)一直在对Jeypore - Dehing雨林的长臂猿进行研究。由于自己持续观察的这一地区出现了捕猎者的踪迹，卡卡蒂开始感到忧虑。
Going on holiday, Fleming (above), then a professor of bacteriology, left several Petri dishes containing staphylococci, which he had been studying, on the mahogany workbench of his lab.
弗莱明(上图)是细菌学教授，那次他外出度假前，把几个装有他研究的金黄色葡萄球菌的培养皿忘在了自己实验室的桃花心木工作台上。
Scott told me that 20 years earlier, he had been studying to be a doctor while working full-time for Bath Iron Works as director of risk management to help support his two children.
斯科特告诉我说，20年前，他当时正在努力学习要获得博士学位，同时为了养活两个孩子，还为巴斯钢铁企业做全职工作，担任风险管理总监。他当时的妻子在打零工。生活很窘迫，他废寝忘食，更没时间锻炼。
Before I knew you, I told Zhipeng that I did not know how to prepare the materials needed for a visa and he gladly introduced you to me for you had been studying in Australia for one year.
当初志鹏当说我很多出国的材料不会弄，他就介绍了你给我认识，因为你曾经在澳大利亚读过一年书。
Before the war, Munk had been studying oceanography, so he took his concerns to his mentor, Harald Sverdrup, then director of Scripps and widely regarded as the top oceanographer in the US.
战前，芒克一直在研究海洋学，他很关注他的导师——哈拉尔斯维德·鲁普，在他的指导下芒克很快成为美国顶尖海洋学家。
What’s more certain is that after checking out of thehotel at 12:28 p.m. on May 14, Strauss-Kahn went to lunch with his youngestdaughter, Camille, who had been studying at Columbia University.
可以确定的是，Strauss-Kahn于12点28分退房后去和他在哥伦比亚大学读书的小女儿Camille去吃了午饭。
The incident occurred in the mid-1660s, when Newton retreated to his family home in northern England after an outbreak of the plague closed the University of Cambridge, where he had been studying.
牛顿的故事发生自1660年代中期，因瘟疫爆发剑桥大学被迫关闭，牛顿回到他英格兰北部的家乡之后，一直在进行他的研究。
While they were in slow-wave sleep (a deep-sleep phase marked by slow electrical oscillations in the brain), the re-searchers played the noises that matched 25 of the images they had been studying.
当他们进入慢波睡眠(以脑中慢的电震荡为特征的深睡眠阶段)时，研究者们播放一些与受试者们所学其中25张图片相匹配的声音。
I had a lot of tension while you've been studying hard on your course in D.C.
当你在华盛顿努力学习的时候，我感到压力很大。
I had a lot of tension while you've been studying hard on your course in D.C.
当你在华盛顿努力学习的时候，我感到压力很大。
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