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Butterflies may not pollinate as many plants as wild bees and hoverflies, but because British butterflies are the best-studied group of insects in the world, they are an extremely useful indicator of the wider declines in flying insects.

蝴蝶授粉的植物也许不如野蜂和食蚜蝇那么多，但由于英国蝴蝶是世界上被研究得最透彻的昆虫类群，它们是反映飞行昆虫更大范围减少的一个极其有用的指标。

(48) One possibility was that they merely used their eyes and tried out the plants they found, but that would probably result in a lot of wasted time and energy, not least because their eyesight is actually not very good.

（48）一种可能是，它们仅仅靠眼睛观察，并尝试所发现的植物，但这很可能会浪费大量时间和精力，尤其是因为它们的视力其实并不好。

(49) The volatile chemicals produced by plants can be carried a long way, and they are very characteristic: Each plant or tree has its own particular odor signature.

（49）植物产生的挥发性化学物质可以传播很远，而且非常有特点：每种植物或树木都有其独特的气味标识。

(49) The volatile chemicals produced by plants can be carried a long way, and they are very characteristic: Each plant or tree has its own particular odor signature.

（49）植物产生的挥发性化学物质可以传播很远，而且非常有特点：每种植物或树木都有其独特的气味标识。

The researchers first established what kinds of plant the elephants preferred either to eat or avoid when foraging freely.

研究人员首先确定了大象在自由觅食时喜欢吃或会避开哪些种类的植物。

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。

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

“种植材料从哪里来？

Restoration is about more than what gets planted in the ground, she says.

她说，恢复工作不仅仅关乎在地里种下什么。

Human factors, as well as trees planted, should be emphasized in forest restoration.

在森林恢复中，除了所种植的树木，人的因素也应受到重视。

In Nagpur, for example, Kotharkar’s team has been able to advise city officials about where to plant trees to provide shade.

例如，在那格浦尔，科塔卡尔的团队已经能够就在哪里植树遮阴向市政官员提出建议。

The UK is facing a future construction crisis because of a failure to plant trees to produce wood, Confor has warned.

英国林业协会Confor警告说，由于未能植树产材，英国未来将面临建筑危机。

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。

At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he’s trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors.

在变压器厂的一张工作台前，年轻的杰森·斯滕奎斯特面对他正试图组装的铜线圈和两位来访者的到来，显得有些慌乱。

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

相反，该公司恰恰做了它长期承诺不会做的事：在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州法规的合宪性，以此作为让其佛蒙特扬基核电站继续运营的孤注一掷之举。

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

这场冲突自2002年起就逐渐浮现，那一年该公司买下了佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——位于弗农的一座老化反应堆。

In 2006, the state went a step further, requiring that any extension of the plant's license be subject to Vermont legislature's approval.

2006年，该州更进一步，要求核电站执照的任何延期都须经佛蒙特州议会批准。

Permission to run a nuclear plant is a public trust.

获准经营核电站是公众的托付。

get permission to purchase a power plant.

获准收购一座电站。