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“Where’s the planting material going to come from?

“种植材料从哪里来？

How can we inform decision makers about the best ways to bring down carbon emissions if we can’t track the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, where it’s coming from and who’s producing it?

如果我们无法追踪大气中二氧化碳的含量、它来自哪里以及由谁产生，我们又怎能告诉决策者减少碳排放的最佳途径呢？

The reality is that water, and the pollutants that so often come with it, don’t respect state boundaries.

现实情况是，水以及常常随之而来的污染物并不会遵守州界。

“Students need to have that quality or hook that will appeal to admissions officers and allow them to visualize how the student might come and enrich their campus community.”

“学生需要具备那种能吸引招生官的特质或亮点，让招生官能够想象这名学生入学后会如何丰富他们的校园社区。”

Now, with record-high home prices and historically low inventory, there’s an increased urgency in such regulation, particularly among those who worry that developers will come in and buy up swaths of housing to flip for a fortune on the short-term rental market.

如今，房价创下历史新高，房源库存处于历史低位，此类监管变得更加紧迫，尤其是在那些担心开发商会进场大量收购住房、再投放到短租市场上转手牟取暴利的人看来。

“A lot of workers are servicing the tourist industry, and the tourism industry is serviced by those people coming in short term,” Castle said, “and so it’s a cyclical effect.”

“很多员工服务于旅游业，而旅游业又靠那些短期前来的人支撑，”卡斯尔说，“所以这是一种循环效应。”

Improvements will also come from the high-density technology and satellite signalling that RFI has been investing in for years, say experts.

专家们表示，RFI多年来一直投资的高密度技术和卫星信号系统也将带来改善。

Coming at a time of fresh incentives from the UK government for landowners to grow more trees, the trade body says these don’t go far enough and fail to promote the benefits of planting them to boost timber supplies.

就在英国政府推出新的激励措施鼓励土地所有者多种树之际，该行业组织表示，这些措施力度不够，未能宣传通过植树增加木材供应的好处。

are believed to come at a wrong time.

被认为出台时机不对。

It comes at a time when authors are already worried about the consequences of the proposed merger between PRH and another big publisher, Simon & Schuster — the reduction in the number of unaligned UK publishers is likely to lead to fewer bidding wars, lower advances, and more conformity in terms of what is published.

此事发生之时，作者们本已在担忧企鹅兰登书屋与另一家大型出版商西蒙与舒斯特拟议合并的后果——英国独立出版商数量的减少很可能导致竞价战减少、预付稿酬降低，以及出版内容更加趋同。

Two centuries ago, the idea of preserving nature, rather than exploiting it, was a novel one to many U.S. settlers. One of the turning points in public support for land conservation efforts — and recognizing the magnificence of the Yellowstone region in particular — came in the form of vivid photographs.

两个世纪前，保护自然而非开发自然的理念，对许多美国定居者来说是一个新奇的想法。公众开始支持土地保护工作——尤其是认识到黄石地区的壮美——的转折点之一，是以生动照片的形式出现的。

The RHS’s decision comes as campaigners try to raise awareness of the problems fake grass causes.

皇家园艺学会作出这一决定之际，正值活动人士努力让人们认识到假草坪带来的问题。

People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come [down] with a cold, and the researchers [calculated] that the stress-reducing effects of hugging [explained] about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.

感知到更多社会支持的人患{{8}}感冒的可能性更小，研究人员{{9}}，拥抱的减压作用{{10}}了这一有益效果的约32%。

Indeed, predictions have been [around] for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.

事实上，这类预言已经流传了二十年，却至今尚未成为现实。

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

然而，这一任命之所以如此出人意料，原因之一是吉尔伯特相对来说名气不大。

“Donkeys are champions when it comes to carrying stuff and are good at going at deserts,” co-author Ludovic Orlando, an evolutionary biologist at Paul Sabin University in France, tells the publication.

“说到驮运东西，驴是佼佼者，而且它们擅长在沙漠中行走，”论文合著者、法国保罗·萨巴蒂埃大学的进化生物学家卢多维克·奥兰多对该刊物表示。

(46) Tracing the history of the term, we can see how the definition of scientific literacy has shifted over time, muddying the waters when it comes to determining the goals of science education.

(46) 追溯这一术语的历史，我们可以看到科学素养的定义是如何随着时间推移而变化的，这使得确定科学教育的目标变得更加混乱。

(49) It wasn’t until the phrase “scientific literacy” came along in the 1940s that science had the formidable slogan it needed to command public attention and make improving science education an important national goal.

(49) 直到20世纪40年代“科学素养”一词出现，科学才拥有了它所需要的强有力的口号，以引起公众的关注，并使改进科学教育成为一项重要的国家目标。

Much of it comes down to your [perception] of what someone said or did.

这在很大程度上取决于你如何看待别人说的话或做的事。

Say your boss picks holes in your sales report, and you come away feeling like this means she thinks you’re a [poor] member of staff.

比如说，老板挑出了你销售报告中的毛病，而你事后觉得这意味着她认为你是个差劲的员工。

When it comes to your friends — maybe it’s because your friendship is so [strong] that they felt able to cancel at late notice.

至于你的朋友——也许正是因为你们的友谊如此牢固，他们才觉得可以临时取消聚会。