收集材料的过程慢得让人难受。

Collecting data is a painfully slow process.

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有些人收集棒球卡、茶壶或贝壳。

Some people collect baseball cards, teapots, or seashells.

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即使我们有时间，也没有多少人会花精力去收集和记录我们祖母和父母的食谱。

Even if we have time, not many of us take the effort to collect and record the recipes from our grandmothers and parents.

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So, they started to do collecting of data on mortality and they developed something called actuarial science, which is estimating the probability of people living.

他们开始收集死亡率的数据,并且发展出精算学,用来估算人在各年龄段死亡的概率

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So it lets you do a profile of not just the genes that you possess, for example, but what genes are actually being used to make proteins in the cells that surround the fluid where this was collected.

他不仅能让研究者了解,人带有哪些基因,还能知道,在收集到的体液细胞的样本中,哪些基因是合成蛋白质的

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If you go to dreambank.net, a guy named Hill collected 50,000 dream reports; you could make some generalizations.

在dreambank。net上，有个叫Hill的人收集了五万个梦境报告;,他从中归纳了一些规律。

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