No lesions were found in birds known to have carried such transmitters. This suggested that for short-term monitoring of less than a year, tail-mounted transmitters on birds could be preferable.

现在没有发现这些鸟儿有任何身体机能损害，这表明如果只是进行小于一年的短期追踪的话，装在尾巴上的接收器是个极佳的选择。

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Sharding collection is preferable because in many cases some data collections tend to be much larger than others, so it would be unprofitable to distribute the entire database.

Sharding是非常合适的解决方案，因为在多数情况下，数据收集会比其它操作要频繁的多，没必要每次都去分配整个数据库。

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Rather than a regulatory system with uniform effluent limitations, it may be preferable to have a variable standard that would concentrate pollution abatement where it costs the least.

制定各种各样的花费成本最少而又达到减污效果最佳的可变标准或许是最好标准，而不是统一的污染限制管制体制。

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"Wouldn't that be preferable than to keep them as priests and paying their salaries, " the source, who would agree to speak only anonymously.

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Maybe it is preferable that British democracy be tempered by a few hundred unelected and average lords than cede hegemony to a bunch of professional pols.

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And it would certainly be preferable for the government to adopt all of the Neill proposals than to delay legislation or dilute the recommendations which cause it difficulty.

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