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And there was the (then-secret) work building the world’s first atomic bomb.

此外还有制造世界上第一颗原子弹的（当时属于机密的）工作。

According to the first two paragraphs, the high-speed rail network in Italy ____

根据前两段，意大利的高铁网络____

“When you talk about conservation or restoration, the first question has to be restoration by whom, for whom?” says Daniel Janzen, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

宾夕法尼亚大学的生物学家丹尼尔·詹曾说：“当你谈论保护或恢复时，首先要问的问题必须是：由谁来恢复，为谁而恢复？”

According to the first two paragraphs, the NHS ____

根据前两段，NHS____

Sometimes it makes sense to go to your boss first.

有时，先去找老板是有道理的。

According to the first two paragraphs, alloparenting refers to the practice of ____

根据前两段，异亲抚育指的是____的做法

In 1967, a scientific survey of the Peloponnesian coast was [gathering] data to analyze changes in sea levels [when] British oceanographer Nicholas Flemming first spotted the sunken [structures].

1967年，一项针对伯罗奔尼撒海岸的科学考察正在{{8}}数据以分析海平面的变化，{{9}}英国海洋学家尼古拉斯·弗莱明首次发现了这些沉没的{{10}}。

There are groups aimed at new parents, at those who want to [try] a new sport for the first time, or networking events for those in the same profession to meet up and [share] ideas.

有面向新手父母的团体，有面向想第一次{{12}}一项新运动的人的团体，还有供同行聚会、{{13}}想法的交流活动。

instruct first-time contributors in citation.

指导首次投稿者如何引用。

He captured the first-ever shots of iconic landmarks such as the Tetons, Old Faithful and the Colorado Rockies.

他首次拍下了提顿山脉、老忠实泉和科罗拉多落基山脉等标志性地标。

Joana Lia Ferreira, an assistant professor of conservation and restoration at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, notes that archaeologists first defined the great material ages of human history — Stone Age, Iron Age, and so on — after examining artifacts in museums.

新里斯本大学科学技术学院文物保护与修复专业助理教授若阿娜·利娅·费雷拉指出，考古学家正是在研究了博物馆里的文物之后，才首次界定了人类历史上伟大的材料时代——石器时代、铁器时代等等。

I first discovered the Napoleonic cryptographic battle a few years ago when I was reading Sir Charles Oman’s epic History of the Peninsular War.

几年前，我在阅读查尔斯·欧曼爵士的鸿篇巨制《半岛战争史》时，第一次发现了拿破仑时代的密码战。

But where and when these animals first became intertwined with humans has been a mystery.

但这些动物最初是在何时何地与人类产生密切联系的，一直是个谜。

But understanding where the animals were first domesticated could guide archaeologists to a narrow region to search for insights about the original tamed donkeys.

但了解驴最初是在哪里被驯化的，可以引导考古学家在一个较小的区域内寻找有关最初被驯化的驴的线索。

The idea that plants have some degree of consciousness first took root in the early 2000s; the term “plant neurobiology” was [coined] around the notion that some aspects of plant behavior could be [compared] to intelligence in animals.

植物具有某种程度意识的观点最早在21世纪初生根；“植物神经生物学”这一术语正是围绕这样一种观念而创造的：植物行为的某些方面可以与动物的智能相比拟。

When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.

几十年前这种做法刚出现时，通常仅限于新生，目的是在他们难以适应大学水平的课程时，给他们在第一年再上一次某门课的机会。

The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid. The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820. A series of fires (including those set by the British in 1814) and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the existing Treasury Building. In 1866, the construction of the North Wing of the Treasury Building necessitated the demolition of the State Department building.

艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼的历史早在其奠基之前很久就开始了。最早的行政办公楼建于1799年至1820年间。一系列火灾（包括1814年英国人纵的火）和过度拥挤的状况促成了现有财政部大楼的建造。1866年，财政部大楼北翼的建设使得国务院大楼不得不被拆除。

First two hours, now three hours — this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

先是两小时，现在是三小时——这是当局建议人们为赶国内航班提前到达机场的时间，至少在一些安检队伍越来越长的美国大型机场是这样。

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In his 1936 work How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie wrote: “There is only one way... to get the best of an argument — and that is to avoid it.” This aversion to arguments is common, but it depends on a mistaken view of arguments that causes profound problems for our personal and social lives — and in many ways misses the point of arguing in the first place.

戴尔·卡耐基在其1936年的著作《人性的弱点》中写道：“只有一种方法……能在争论中占上风——那就是避免争论。”这种对争论的反感很普遍，但它基于一种对争论的错误看法，这种看法给我们的个人生活和社会生活造成了深刻的问题——而且在很多方面根本没有抓住争论的意义所在。

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

这些新形式起初主要由学者创作、由业余演员表演，但在英国，正如在西欧其他各地一样，职业演员阶层的壮大正使戏剧趋于大众化，无论它是新是旧，是古典的还是中世纪的，是文学性的还是闹剧性的。

Here are five simple ways that you can make the first move and start a conversation with strangers.

以下是五种简单的方法，让你可以主动迈出第一步，与陌生人开始交谈。

Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

沃克斯说，《科学》杂志将部分论文交给统计学家审阅的想法“有一定可取之处，但其弱点在于，它首先要依靠审稿编辑委员会来识别‘需要审查的论文’”。