Some simplistically attribute the decline in our public education system to the drain of skilled students by private schools, but far more significant events were at work.
一些人将公共教育体系的衰退简单粗暴地归因于私立学校技能型学生的流失，但更重要的因素仍在发挥其影响。
Researchers measured people's cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
研究人员测量了人们在工作时和在家里时的皮质醇，即一种压力标志的水平，结果发现在家里，这个原本应该是安身之所的地方，皮质醇含量更高。
But inside the Grand Guignol, disturbed minds were at work.
但是进入大木偶剧场，我们的心智就开始乱了。
Other astronomers wondered whether more exotic processes were at work.
其他天文学家想知道是否有外来过程在起作用。
Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way.
我们的父母都要工作，大部分时间，他们都让我们自己去学校。
The workers were at work in the factory that afternoon when a big fire broke out.
那天下午工人们正在工厂干活，就在这时一场大火爆发了。
More than 400 men were at work at the time of the explosion but most managed to escape.
事故发生时，井下当班工人有四百多名，大部分工人逃离事故现场。
In a short time I heard loud knocks close to my ear, and found that men were at work on a stage there.
很快，我听到耳边有响亮的敲打声，发现一些人正在那儿造一个台子。
After a few minutes I asked, "Is it possible that while you were at work, your son could have sneaked into the house?"
几分钟以后，当我问：“有没有这种可能，当你在上班时，你儿子可能已经偷偷溜进房子里来了？”
The blast occurred at 2:17 am while 436 employees of the Tunlan Coal Mine were at work underground in Gujiao city, 60 km west of Taiyuan, capital of the coal-rich province.
这起矿难事故发生于当天凌晨2时17分，事故发生在山西省古交市的屯兰煤矿，当时时井下有436名矿工正在工作。古交位于太原往西60公里。
Participants were asked how often they engaged in both light and intense physical activity during their leisure time. People were also asked how physically active they were at work.
接受测试人员者需回答他们在休闲时间参加轻、重体力活动的频繁程度，以及工作时的体力劳动强度。
While my fingers and eyes were at work evaluating his condition, I asked him a few questions about his daily habits. His diet consisted mainly of butter tea and Tsampa and a small amount of mutton.
同时我还问了他几个与他的日常生活有关的问题，发现他的饮食结构大部分是酥油茶、糌粑和很少一点羊肉。
Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transfbrmation scene is takiag place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it.
卧室外的一个巨大震动现场封闭窗帘地方，就好像有无数小精灵仙童在工作，我们打呵欠，伸展，什么都不知道。
If workers felt undervalued and were not compensated with a good vacation, they would feel dissatisfied and not do their best at work.
如果员工觉得自己的价值被低估了，没有得到一个好的假期作为补偿，他们就会感到不满，不会在工作中尽他们最大的努力。
If wokers felt undervalued and were not compensated with a good vacation, they would feel dissatisfied and not do their best at work.
如果员工觉得自己的价值被低估，又没有得到一次愉快的假期作为补偿，他们就会感到不满，而且无法在工作中做到最好。
She was filled with indignation at the conditions under which miners were forced to work.
她为矿工们被迫工作的条件满心愤慨。
His status in Lord Wellington's headquarters and the recognition given to him for his work were all bound up with the class politics of the army at the time.
他在威灵顿勋爵总部的地位，以及他工作受到的认可都与当时军队中的阶级政治紧密相关。
The clerical workers considered factors such as quality of work performed and job knowledge near the top of their list, but these were at the bottom of the production workers' list.
文员们把工作质量和工作知识等因素放在工作清单的最前面，但这些因素在生产工人的工作清单中却排在最后。
Here at Ohio State, where housing was tight, they were told to work out the problem.
在住房紧张的俄亥俄州，他们被告知要解决这个问题。
In 2012, however, the hull shape was at the centre of the work, so modern power tools were used to carve the oak planks, before turning to prehistoric tools for finishing.
然而，在2012年，船体形状是这项工作的中心，所以现代电动工具被用来雕刻橡树木板，然后再用史前工具进行修整。
Kae, whose sister I shared a room with when we were at college, has gone to work in Australia.
凯去了澳大利亚工作。我上大学时和她姐姐同住一个房间。
In most of our work, when we were looking at older adults who've got an illness, we always have to have health controls.
在我们工作的大部分时候，看到年长者生病时，我们总要管控他们的健康状况。
All of us were hard at work at the kitchen table, with my mom filming the annual event.
我们所有人都在厨房的桌子上努力工作，我妈妈在拍摄这一年度活动。
If I were to bring my clay here and work for three hours every afternoon, I could complete most of the project while you are at your desk.
如果我能把我的粘土带到这里，每天下午工作三个小时，我就可以在你办公的时候自己完成大部分项目。
For this work, titled "Truckload of Plastic", Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they'd been dumped from a truck all at once.
对于这个名为“一卡车塑料”的作品，冯·黄和一群志愿者收集了1万多件塑料，然后将它们绑在一起，使其看起来就像是一下子从卡车上倾倒下来的样子。
If even the bees and birds were so busy at work, then I, a human being, should be ashamed of being idle.
甚至连小鸟和蜜蜂都在忙着工作，我，作为一个人，应该为无所事事而感到羞耻。
Oddly enough, 85% of the survey respondents believed their users were using social networking applications at work.
奇怪的是，85%的受访者相信他们的用户在工作时使用社会化网络。
Environmental scientists have long suggested that there were likely external factors at work, but until recently, the traditional obesity-research community rejected such claims.
长期以来，环境科学家们一直认为，对于肥胖很可能有些外部因素在起作用。但直到最近，传统的肥胖研究组织驳斥了这些说法。
Environmental scientists have long suggested that there were likely external factors at work, but until recently, the traditional obesity-research community rejected such claims.
长期以来，环境科学家们一直认为，对于肥胖很可能有些外部因素在起作用。但直到最近，传统的肥胖研究组织驳斥了这些说法。
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