While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain—a trait called lodging.

虽然较高的小麦能更好地争夺阳光，但它们在额外谷粒的重压下会有倒塌的倾向——这种特性被称为倒伏。

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An emerging discipline called neuroaesthetics is seeking to bring scientific objectivity to the study of art, and has already given us a better understanding of many masterpieces.

一种称为神经美学的新兴学科正试图将科学客观性引入艺术研究，并已经带给我们对很多名作更好的理解。

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You see, the first "videophones"—that's what they're called—were made in Japan, but they can only show a still black and white image, so this videophone is much better than that.

你看，第一批被称作“可视电话”的设备是日本制造的，但它们只能显示静止的黑白图像，所以这款可视电话要比那款好得多。

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And the answer,she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention -- a function called the executive control system.

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All right so it has to live in RAM as opposed to the hard drive because otherwise things would be terribly slow as you know so it's much better if your programs live while they're running in RAM and they end up in what's called the tech segment.

好的，它存在内存中，而不是硬盘中,因为，否则程序会非常的缓慢,程序在内存中运行会好得多,它们在技术段,的地方结束。

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I declare a variable called n. I'm not giving it a value yet, so I had better be careful.

我申明一个变量n，我先不给它赋值，所以我最好小心点。

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What and how our bodies are trying to digest heavily processed foods, items perhaps better called calorie delivery systems, is now a mental image rather than a mystery.

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Poder Volar, a clinic in Buenos Aires, uses a Virtually Better environment called Virtual Airplane to help patients overcome fear of flying, by letting them gradually get used to the process in the safety of an office.

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He called for better training for GPs to spot the problem and new ways of helping parents.

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