That's because very large animals have a slow rate of reproduction, so all you have to do is remove a few young females from the herd, and you can, fairly quickly, significantly reduce the population.

那是因为大型生物的繁殖速度十分缓慢，所以只要除去象群中的几头年轻的母象，它们的数量就会大幅的下降。

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"And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment," Gordon says that by and large, "you could use today's data and feel fairly confident."

“如果你需要预测人类不久后的身高来设计一个设备的话，”戈登概括说，“你可以相当自信地使用当今的数据。”

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We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.

我们从快餐和零食中摄取相当大部分的卡路里。

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"The aftershocks will start off being fairly large and fairly frequent, and then sort of peter out as time goes on, although you will see aftershocks for weeks to months after the earthquake.

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It involves putting a needle, a fairly large needle into usually one of the pelvic bones and collecting marrow from which is tissue that's deep inside those bones.

先要用针头,相当大的针头刺进你的盆骨,然后进行收集,这些在骨头深处的骨髓

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Now, the polio vaccine that Salk produced was very effective, but it required a fairly large dose of the vaccine and it had to be injected into the arms of children.

索尔克生产的小儿麻痹症疫苗效果显著,但是,该疫苗的单支注射剂量非常大,而且必须通过小孩的手臂进行注射

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Maybe this is because my experience with charter schools has been, by and large, fairly positive.

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Ken: We still had some protection, and we pocketed some fairly large premiums for selling some protection?

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But by and large, their recovery has been fairly mediocre.

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