在上世纪70年代末，来自俄勒冈州州立大学的一个研究小组意外的发现了在太平洋海底的一个排气口周围拥有完整且兴旺的生态系统。

In the late 1970s, a team of researchers from Oregon State University unexpectedly discovered whole ecosystems thriving around a hot vent on the Pacific seafloor.

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“当我着手研究这个课题时，我非常怀疑，”俄勒冈州州立大学教授，报告的作者——萨里娜 M.罗得里格斯(Sarina M. Rodrigues )说，“但是研究成果彻底说服了我。”

“I came into this research as a big skeptic, ” said Sarina M. Rodrigues of Oregon State University, an author of the new report, “but the results had me floored.”

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因此，英特尔在俄勒冈州的雇员里，每十五个中就有一个拥有波特兰州立大学学位。

As a result, one out of every fifteen of Intel's Oregon employees has a degree from Portland State.

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