It is also not because there are no ways (albeit imperfect) to identify the best research retrospectively.
同样也不是因为没有方法(尽管有瑕疵)来甄别迄今为止最好的研究成果。
Such changes are all but invisible over the short time scale of modern observations, and, it is argued, they are usually obscured by innumerable gaps in the imperfect fossil record.
这些变化在现代观测短时间范围内几乎是看不见的，而且，有人认为，这些变化常常被不完善的化石记录中的无数空白所掩盖。
Ginsburg said that American judges should approach foreign legal materials with sensitivity to our differences and imperfect understanding, but contended it was worth the effort.
金斯伯格说，美国法官“应该针对我们的差异和不完善的认识方面有意识地接触外国的法律材料”，这是值得努力的。
Whichever way state collapse is assessed, it will always be an imperfect measure of priorities for policymakers.
无论用哪种标准将一个国家定为“崩溃”，对政策制订者来说都不是完美的方法。
As we know from attempting to use waterfall methodologies for years, we rarely know everything up-front, and our attempts to get it right at first are imperfect.
从多年尝试瀑布模型的经验中我们得出，我们很少能够事先预知所有的事，试图在一开始就做对是不完美的。
When the creature returned as an autonomous force with demands that it insisted were met, its creator was unable to find a way to repair the damage done by his imperfect invention.
当书中被制造的再生人返回，以武力要挟维维克（制造者）要求维克满足它的需要时，制造者维克却不能够找到合适的方法来修复他的不完美发明所带来的破坏。
The relevant question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with it.
对成长中的一代人来说，相关的问题不是我们的社会是否完美(我们可以想当然地认为是这样)，而是应该如何去应付它。
But then you begin. You write the first draft, you draw the first sketch, you shoot the initial footage and realize it's not the way you imagined it. It's imperfect.
当你开始写初稿，画第一幅草图，拍摄第一段影像的时候，现实并不是你想象的那样，现实是不完美的。
Of course, the vendors love imperfect interoperability because it locks customers into their proprietary offerings.
当然，供应商们偏爱不完善的互操作性，因为这样可以将用户绑定在它们的私有产品之上。
For instance a white cup with a black spot is' imperfect. 'Using design, we tell people' it is still a good cup. '.
比如带有黑色斑点的白色杯子是‘不完美’的，通过设计，我们告诉人们‘它仍是一只好杯子’。
it will always be an imperfect measure of priorities for policymakers.
建议改为“这都不是对决策者优先关注顺序的完美衡量”；
It is a muddled, imperfect solution (just ask Catholics offended by this week's pope-bashing).
乱七八糟不完美的措施(问问这周被袭击教皇事件冒犯了的天主教徒)。
Gliding distance is an imperfect measure of an airliner's aerodynamic efficiency, since it is not designed for gliding.
其实滑翔距离并不能作为客机气动效率的评价手段，因为这不是它的设计初衷。
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
一个奇怪的事实是，在失意的日子里，我们能够生动地想起不复存在的美好时光；而在得意的时候，对苦难的日子却只留有非常淡漠而残缺的记忆。
Since our current intellectual property regime was conceived in an era when copying was difficult and imperfect, it's not surprising that it seems increasingly out of sync with the networked world.
由于我们现行的知识产权制度构思与那个复制困难且不完善的时代，它似乎跟网络世界越来越背道而驰，这一点都不奇怪。
When it came to advice, sometimes he was just guessing too. My guess was as good as his, because he was an imperfect father.
当涉及到建议时候，有时候他仅仅只能给出一个猜测，因为他是一个不完美的父亲。
First, it used height and weight measurements that were reported by participants - which can be imperfect.
首先它以身高和体重作为参考彼岸准而参与者认为这个标准可以更完善。
Obviously, if imperfect people lived there it wouldn't be perfect.
很明显，要是不完美的人住在那里，那里就不完美了。
Employment lags economic output and is an admittedly imperfect indicator, but if you continue the analogy, it may be that the next 4-5 year boom cycle lasts until 2015!
由于就业数据滞后于经济产值数据，必须得承认这是一个不完美的指标，但如果你继续类比，可能会得出下一个4 - 5年的繁荣期将延续至2015年！
He doesn't do that because he's a man. He does it because he's an imperfect human.
他不会因为自己是个男人就不做那件事，他这样做只是因为他不是个完人。
She doesn't do that because she's a woman. She does it because she's an imperfect human.
她不会因为自己是个女人就不做那件事，她这样做只是因为她不是个完人。
The scholarly know-it-all is a walking encyclopedia on programming. He can spend hours passionately discussing the history of a programming language or dissecting imperfect code.
学术超人犹如会行走的编程百科全书，他会兴致勃勃花费少数小时讨论某种编程语言的历史或者分析不甚完美的编码。
Beauty is found not in the structured but in the unstructured, it is not found in the perfect but the imperfect not in similarities but in differences.
美丽并不存在于有条不紊，而存在于无组织，美丽并不存在于完美，而存在于残缺，美丽并不存在于一致，而存在于不同。
They may also be imperfect agents of their children; and a person who becomes obese as a child will find it more difficult to avoid obesity than people who were thin children.
他们或许也不适合照顾子女；并且如果某人在小时便变得肥胖，那他将会发觉自己比小时候瘦的人更难避免得肥胖症。
The reaction has shown that the peace process, though imperfect, is too robust for the murderers to reverse it.
人们的反响显示出，和平进程尽管还不完全，但却是极其坚固的，是谋杀者们不能逆转的。
It is our perception and our attitude towards perfection that gives shape to the unstructured, makes the imperfect perfect and causes differences to dissolve into similarities.
是我们对完美的感知与态度给予无组织以形状，使得残缺变得完美，使得不同融于相似之中。
This imperfect theatre has been so influential in the lives of three generations of English theatre people that it has become the stuff of legend.
剧院虽不完美，但它对三代英国戏剧人的生涯影响巨大，已经成为一个传奇。
This imperfect theatre has been so influential in the lives of three generations of English theatre people that it has become the stuff of legend.
剧院虽不完美，但它对三代英国戏剧人的生涯影响巨大，已经成为一个传奇。
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