By 1859 Darwin had finished his famous book "The Origin of Species". It made a great hit in the world of science.
到1859年，达尔文完成了他的名著《物种起源》。该书在科学界引起了轰动。
Last year its operating margin fell from 8.8% to 2.8%, and it made a loss of $0.5m in the third quarter.
去年，捷蓝的营运利润率从8.8%降为2.8%，且今年第三季度亏损50万美元。
No real harm done, but it made a big mess of both the tree and the yard under it. One kind of Halloween mischief.
这并不造成真正的伤害，只是把树和院子搞乱，一种万圣节的恶作剧。
The FDA is not currently working on regulations nor has it made a decision to regulate sodium content in foods at this time.
美国食品药品监督管理局目前并没有设定规范或决定设定规范去管理食品中的盐含量。
I think whoever did it made a very clear point, but nothing has changed. Should we vandalise all the decorations to show our sentiments?
我想不管是谁干的都很清楚地说明了一个问题，但是宾馆方面并没有任何改变，难道我们要毁掉所有的装饰才能表达我们的心情吗？
It made a “flea hop, ” as the team called it, back in December when it lifted about three feet off the runway and flew less than a quarter mile.
去年十二月份试飞的时候，它只被抬升到了跑道上方三英尺的高度，总共飞了还不到四分之一英里，用研发人员的话来说，它只是完成了一趟“跳蚤蹦”。
Given the ubiquity and spread of Hanzi in Ancient Asia, it made a lot of sense to make traditional Chinese the universal language of the Avatar world.
考虑到古亚洲汉字的普及率，在神通剧中的世界里起用正体中文作为通用语言无可非议。
While one of the crew was using the Russian-made toilet last week, the toilet motor fan stopped working after “it made a loud noise”, according to NASA.
据介绍，上周一名宇航员上厕所时，“马桶突然发出一声很大的声响”，厕所的风扇就不转了。
Tact personified, the woman somehowresisted the impulse to grab his nose with her fist and give it severalturns counterclockwise till it made a ratcheting noise.
为了保持行为得体，女人们还是制止住了自己用手抓住他的鼻子按逆时针猛转几个圈直到听见机轮转动声音的冲动。
However, the built-in TAB expansion feature isn't that sophisticated, and Microsoft knows it. That's why it made a function called TabExpansion that can be modified.
然而，内建的Tab扩展功能也不是非常完美的，微软也知道这点，这也是他们为什么令一个名为TabExpansion的函数可以被修改的原因。
At the beginning of August, it made a show of deploying 4000 armed soldiers to control sensitive points in big cities (train stations, commercial centres and so on.)
在八月初，它上演了部署4000名武装士兵占领重要城市敏感地点(火车站，商业中心等等)的好戏。
It's alleged that Jobs asked engineers on the original iPod team to stay up all night fiddling with the headphone jack so that it made a more satisfying clicking sound.
据说，乔布斯曾让最初的iPod团队的设计师们通宵熬夜反复调试耳机插孔，以保证它能发出更令人满意的咔嗒声。
A video camera connected to facial recognition software gave the robot feedback: When it made a movement that resembled a "real" expression, it received a reward signal.
一台与面部表情识别软件相连的摄影机给机器人反馈信号：当机器人做出一个类似于“现实的”表情时，摄影机就会收到动作信号。
It made a lot of people sad. It made me especially sad because this didn't feel like the same Zed that I had dinner with in Chicago or that I had talked to so many times before.
这篇文章让很多人感觉沮丧，我当然更甚，因为在这篇文章里看到的Zed并不是跟我一起在芝加哥吃饭并愉快地进行了多次交流的Zed。
Goldman Sachs , the epitome of the elite investment bank, has settled charges over one notorious sub-prime derivatives deal by paying $550m and admitting that it made a “mistake”.
高盛，这个精英投行的象征，也因为一项臭名昭著的次贷衍生品交易支付了五亿五千万美元并承认自己犯了错误。
As the company grew and expanded into foreign markets, it made a name for itself as a problem solver - listening to its potential customers' needs or problems and designing solutions.
随着公司成长并开拓了国际市场，它成为了知名的方案供应商——积极听取潜在客户的需求和问题然后设计解决方案。
Land Rover has recently turned a corner (it made a profit of about $1.5 billion last year), but Jaguar cost Ford some $10 billion during its 18-year stewardship and its sales were in decline.
陆虎最近已经出现了拐点：去年盈利了15亿美元，但是捷豹在福特手中的18年间，亏损了100亿美元，其销量还在逐渐减少。
In 1993 he set up a mercenary outfit, Executive Outcomes, with the controversial entrepreneur Tony Buckingham. It made a fortune protecting oil installations from rebels in Angola's civil war.
1993年，他与非议不断的企业家TonyBuckingham一道创立了“执行结果(Executive Out comes)”公司，该公司唯利是图，曾在安哥拉内战中为保卫石油设施免遭叛军破坏而大赚一笔。
“We could probably have it made a lot cheaper in China,” says Richard Brucciani, executive chairman. “But we couldn't guarantee the quality and it wasn't economic unless you could fill a container.”
PAL执行董事长理查德•布鲁切安尼(RichardBrucciani)表示：“我们在中国制作上述产品也许会便宜很多，但无法保证质量；另外，除非你能填满整个集装箱，否则就不划算。”
In the 1980s Johnson & Johnson's swift recall of Tylenol capsules, after some packs had been laced with poison, made it a model for crisis management.
20世纪80年代，由于一些药盒内掺入了有毒物质，强生迅速召回泰诺胶囊，这曾使它成为危机管理的楷模。
If it had hit the Earth, it would have made a crater 100 miles across and thrown up an immense cloud of dust.
如果它撞上了地球，就会砸出一个100英里宽的大坑并扬起巨大的尘埃云团。
这看起来像是一个杜撰的词。
He had made it his business to surround himself with a hand-picked group of bright young officers.
他把确保身边有自己亲手挑选的一群聪明的年轻军官当作自己的职责。
Leonard made a rapid calculation: he'd never make it in time.
伦纳德做了个快速的估算：他不可能及时做完。
Once a model has made it into the major league every detail is mapped out by her agency.
模特儿一朝成名后，她的一切细节将由其经纪人安排。
They made it clear that they would only exercise passive resistance in the event of a military takeover.
他们声明假若发生军事接管，他们只采取非暴力抵抗行动。
The Greeks improved upon it and made it a true alphabet by taking some signs that they didn't need for their own language by turning them into vowel sounds.
希腊人将它改良，他们通过把一些他们自己的语言中并不需要的符号变成元音使用，使其成为真正的字母表。
The ink also did not dry easily, and it sometimes made a mess on the paper.
这种墨水也不容易干，有时会把纸弄得一团糟。
America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback.
美国的国家象征秃头鹰在20年前几乎都灭绝了，但它的数量最终有所恢复。
America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback.
美国的国家象征秃头鹰在20年前几乎都灭绝了，但它的数量最终有所恢复。
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