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Their work deals with one of the problems that could block major restoration efforts in different parts of the world.

他们的工作所应对的，正是可能阻碍世界各地重大恢复工作的问题之一。

“Insects that today are a minor problem may become a major problem if they can produce three or four generations in a year,” says forest ecologist John Stanturf.

森林生态学家约翰·斯坦图夫说：“如今只是小问题的昆虫，如果一年能繁殖三四代，就可能变成大问题。”

Yet despite two decades of strategies and a number of major health reforms, we have failed to make meaningful progress on any of these aims.

然而，尽管二十年来出台了各种战略、进行了多项重大医疗改革，我们在这些目标上都未能取得实质性进展。

reevaluating major health outcomes.

重新评估主要健康结果。

What played the major role in lowering the price of nails after the late 1700s?

18世纪末以后，什么在降低钉子价格方面起了主要作用？

agrees to major public demands.

顺应了主要的公众诉求。

Extracurricular activities related to the college major declared on a college application are beneficial, experts suggest.

专家们认为，与大学申请中所申报专业相关的课外活动是有益的。

“If you already know your major, having an extracurricular that fits into that major can be a big plus,” says Mayghin Levine, the manager of educational opportunities with The Cabbage Patch Settlement House, a Louisville, Kentucky, nonprofit community center.

肯塔基州路易斯维尔市非营利社区中心“卷心菜地睦邻之家”的教育机会经理梅金·莱文说：“如果你已经确定了自己的专业，拥有一项与该专业契合的课外活动会是一大加分项。”

“If you already know your major, having an extracurricular that fits into that major can be a big plus,” says Mayghin Levine, the manager of educational opportunities with The Cabbage Patch Settlement House, a Louisville, Kentucky, nonprofit community center.

肯塔基州路易斯维尔市非营利社区中心“卷心菜地睦邻之家”的教育机会经理梅金·莱文说：“如果你已经确定了自己的专业，拥有一项与该专业契合的课外活动会是一大加分项。”

One survey from Accenture found that 88 percent of graduating seniors this year chose their major with a job in mind.

埃森哲的一项调查发现，今年88%的应届毕业生在选择专业时就考虑到了工作。

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 80 percent of college students end up changing their majors at least once.

根据美国国家教育统计中心的数据，近80%的大学生最终至少更换过一次专业。

Many students find themselves listing one major on their college applications, but switching to another after taking college classes.

许多学生在大学申请中填报了一个专业，但在上了大学课程后又转到了另一个专业。

The zoology program at my university attracts students for whom zoo visits were the crucial formative experience that led them to major in biological sciences.

我所在大学的动物学专业吸引了这样一些学生：参观动物园是他们关键的成长经历，正是这一经历促使他们主修生物科学。

His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess. But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like. At Harvard, Mr. Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read” — they form a sort of social glue.

他关注的主要是人文学科：文学、语言、哲学等。这些学科正在变得不受欢迎：如今22%的美国大学毕业生主修商科，而主修历史的只有2%，主修英语的只有4%。然而，许多美国一流大学希望本科生打好基础，掌握每一个受过教育的人都应具备的基本思想经典。但大多数大学难以就“通识教育”应该是什么样子达成一致。梅南先生指出，在哈佛，“名著之所以被阅读，是因为它们一直被人阅读”——它们形成了一种社会黏合剂。