Experts claim over time the brain could reduce in size, back towards our our Neanderthal ancestors, to reduce the energy it consumes.

有专家称，为了减少能量消耗，随着时间的推移，人类的大脑的容量会缩小到与我们穴居祖先相仿的程度。

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Shrinking? Experts claim over time the brain could reduce in size, back towards our our Neanderthal ancestors, to reduce the energy it consumes

大脑还会缩小吗？有专家称，为了减少能量消耗，随着时间的推移，人类的大脑的容量会缩小到与我们穴居祖先相仿的程度。

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We could afford to reduce defence spending in peacetime without excessive risk.

在和平时期我们可以减少国防开支而并不引起风险增加。

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He and his wife had to lay off workers, reduce inventory and stay open longer hours just to remain in business.

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There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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One of the hypotheses that was being tested in this particular study was that a low-fat diet would reduce a woman's risk for breast cancer.

其中一个,在研究中被检验的假设是,低脂膳食,有助于降低妇女患乳腺癌的风险

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Ministers say Universal Credit will increase incentives to work, reduce in-work poverty and simplify the system.

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While the brewer admitted its debt levels were now "quite high", it said it was confident they would quickly reduce in the newly enlarged group.

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Governors are spending what could be a cyclical upswing in tax revenues on entitlements such as increased education which will be hard to reduce in a downswing.

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