That might seem like a powerful trend, but geophysicists do not know whether the clustering of large earthquakes represents anything more than chance.
看上去这是一种强烈的趋势,但地球物理学家们还不清楚这一系列强烈地震除了偶然之外,是否预示着更多的可能。
They guessed correctly more than chance would predict—deaf people's sounds of amusement and relief were pretty obvious. Which suggests we may be born primed to laugh or sigh.
研究人员的猜测比随机猜测的结果更准确——聋人喜悦或松一口气时的声音是非常明显的,这就表明了我们天生就懂得如何发笑和叹气。
It irks them that some people have more of a chance than others for their voices to be heard.
有些人比其他人有更多的话语权使他们感到不满。
Wearing a seat belt can reduce your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.
系好安全带可以减少一半以上的死亡或重伤的几率。
The researchers found that the dogs were able to pick the angry or happy face by touching a picture of it with their noses more often than one would expect by random chance.
研究人员发现,狗能够通过用鼻子触碰图片,来选择愤怒或快乐的面孔,其概率超过了人们对随机性的预期。
You've got more chance of rescuing your relationship after a voluntary confession than after an unwanted discovery.
相比被被动的被发现而言,主动的坦白能够有更多的机会挽救双方的关系。
The hope is that a grand alliance, and joint ventures under its umbrella, stand more chance of breaking free from old constraints than attempts to strike separate deals on particular routes.
希望在于一个大的联盟,以及其麾下的合资企业,比起试图就特殊线路的达成个别交易拥有更多机会打破旧的紧张气氛。
This means that in America you rarely get more than one chance to put forth your version of the facts, so you had better do it right the first time.
这就意味着,在美国,你只有一次说明自己一方事实的机会,所以说你最好在第一次就把这事情做对。
Bugs that aren't killed by sanitizers aren't necessarily more dangerous than those that are. But the more that remain, the greater the chance of infection, doctors say.
洗手液无法杀灭的病菌并不一定比那些被杀死的病菌更具危险性,但医生们表示,存活下来的病菌越多,人体受感染的几率就越大。
Counselling and medication can more than double the chance that a smoker who tries to quit will succeed.
咨询和药物治疗可使试图戒烟者的成功机会增加不止一倍。
More than 1, 000 couples have already applied for the chance to be sent to resorts in Africa, Europe, Asia and the United States.
已经有超过1 000对夫妇申请了到非洲、欧洲、亚洲和美国等地的胜地度假。
Over time, however, the fish started to chose the correct door more often than by chance alone.
然而,随着时间的推移,鱼选择正确的门越来越多次。
An application that USES a rules engine to express rules using a declarative approach has a higher chance of being more maintainable and extensible than one that doesn't.
使用规则引擎以声明方法表达规则的应用程序比其他应用程序更容易维护和扩展。
All the doctors said if Cheng had chemotherapy, he would have a 50 percent chance of surviving more than five years.
所有的医生都说,如果他接受化疗,他再多活五年的可能性在一半以上,如果不化疗,那他肯定活不过两年。
A year ago, no one here would have predicted that a black candidate would become the nominee of a major party and have a more than realistic chance of winning the White House on 4 November.
一年前,无人敢于预言一名黑人候选人将成为主要党派的提名者,并在十一月四日,通过一场超现实的胜利赢得入主白宫的机会。
Yet because of Lebanon's finely balanced power structure, such pressure may have more chance of success than in Gaza, where power is more fragmentary.
然而,由于黎巴嫩的权力结构存在微妙的平衡,施加这种压力成功的机会可能大于ei力更加分散的加沙。
The report will highlight key reasons why this is more important now, and has a greater chance of success than at any time since.
报告将突出说明初级卫生保健为什么在现在更为重要并比以往任何时候都具有更大成功机会的关键原因。
It gave more than 40 students a chance to put their hacking skills to good use and to earn a little pocket money in the process.
本次大赛使得40多名学生能够正确利用他们所掌握的黑客技能,参赛者也可以通过竞赛赚到一些零花钱。
The verdict comes as a blow to Dominique Francon, who more than ever despairs that individual achievement and integrity have little chance of surviving in the world as it is.
定罪对多米尼加·弗朗是一个打击,她比先前更绝望,认为个人成就和正直没有机会在一个像这样的世界中生存。
NASDAQ and ICE knew they would have to offer substantially more than the Germans to have a chance of succeeding.
纳斯达克和洲际交易所知道他们将不得不提供超过德国报价高得多得多的价格,才有成功的机会。
Whatever happens, all investors will get a chance to vote. Cadbury cannot ask for more than that.
无论发生什么,所有的投资者都有机会投出自己的一票。吉百利夫复何求?
We're going to give them another chance to spend more time worrying about your jobs than keeping theirs.
我们将给他们机会去花更多时间考虑你们的饭碗而不是他们自己的。
This dream recognition comforts me; seeing the house again in different surroundings is no more surprising than encountering an old friend by chance in a strange place.
这种梦安慰了我的心灵;在不同的环境里又见到这所房子已不再像在一个陌生的地方遇见了一位老朋友那么令人感到惊讶了。
But such beneficial exchanges occur more by chance than design. Because most water use is not measured, let alone priced, trade rarely reflects water scarcities.
但是此类有益的交流更多的是出于偶然,而非处于策划——因为大部分水都未曾经过测量,更不用说标价,因此水匮乏无从体现。
The computer then selects pairs of words in a bin to see if they co-occur more often than they would by chance in the original documents.
计算机随后从存储文件中挑选若干对词汇,分析它们同时出现的次数是否高于它们偶然出现在原始文档中的次数。
Ten years of retail experience offers much more chance of success than an opportunity based on telemarketing skills, where you have zero experience.
和毫无经验的电话营销相较,如果你有十年的零售业经验,那么你成功的几率会更高。
More than 1, 000 couples have applied for the chance to be sent to resorts in Africa, Europe, Asia and the United States.
已经有超过1,000对夫妇申请了到非洲、欧洲、亚洲和美国等地的胜地度假。
More than 1, 000 couples have applied for the chance to be sent to resorts in Africa, Europe, Asia and the United States.
已经有超过1,000对夫妇申请了到非洲、欧洲、亚洲和美国等地的胜地度假。
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