Is that a criticism or just an observation?

那是一种批评呢，还是一种观察评论而已？

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Most information was collected by direct observation of the animals' behaviour.

大部分信息都是通过直接观察动物的行为收集到的。

《牛津词典》

She was undernourished, an observation that prompted yet another unasked question.

她营养不良，这个观察引出了另一个未提出的问题。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

At the top,you follow a short path to a stone-and-steel observation tower.

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Nothing follows from this really--I think-- rather interesting observation that there's a kind of pervasiveness of triadicity.

只是关注了-,这有趣的,三个字的组合的反复大量出现。

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It's a very important observation in finance that returns on a lot of speculative assets have fat-tailed distributions.

在金融界中,这是一种重要的观测方法,许多投机性资产的收益,都是服从长尾分布的

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Animators also relied on videotapes of the two stars - and close observation - to help them breathe life into their woman warrior.

CNN: WOMAN WARRIOR

That started happening in 2006, when Dr Jiao developed a technique called time-series observation-based infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, or TIREM for short, that is able to measure the amount of AAPB in the oceans accurately.

ECONOMIST: Bacteria and climate change

While not quite as "nano" as the SIM card-sized satellites that launched with the Shuttle Endeavor, the smaller-than-a-breadbox ExoPlanetSat is still pretty tiny by satellite standards, yet it packs all the necessary optics and technology required for what's known as transit observation -- that is, monitoring a star for decreases in brightness, which could indicate a planet passing in front of it.

ENGADGET: ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite to begin search for alien worlds next year