The country was in a ferment.

那个国家正处于动乱之中。

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Yeast is a ferment .

酵母是一种发酵剂。

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Objective To carry out the studies on hygiene and safety of a ferment food "Nata de coco".

目的为研究椰子发酵食品“ 椰果”的卫生安全性。

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There is still a tremendous amount of intellectual ferment and excitement in the capitals of Russia.

当时的知识分子还是相当活跃,特别是在俄国大城市中。

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This was a time when Hopkins led all American universities in the importing of important European scholars, and it was a place of remarkable intellectual ferment.

当时霍普金斯先于美国的其他大学,邀请重要的欧洲学者来讲学，那里也是有影响的思想动乱的源地。

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The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

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The 19th century emerges as a ferment of competing schemes and fantasies of European federalism, global brotherhood and world government.

ECONOMIST: How world institutions were built

There is a ferment of debate in Europe.

BBC: Europe's summer of argument

Rather as in the economic sphere competing private companies tend to produce wealth and activity, whereas monopoly firms have the opposite effect, so in the religious sphere competing sects generate a ferment of activity and increased levels of belief, whereas state churches produce indifference.

ECONOMIST: Therapy of the masses