A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人口
Population
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
由于对人口易感性有了更好的了解,我们将比今天更有能力就风险管理作出明智的决定。
Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.
为了满足全体人民的需要,学校必须提供与入学儿童的需要和能力一样丰富和多样的课程。
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.
生活在一个完全不同的物理和生物环境中,这样的群体将有独特的机会进入新的利基市场,并选择新的适应途径。
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
我刚刚加入人口研究所的理事会,因为我相信,早日稳定世界人口对实现这一目标是重要的。
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
我们西方人不克制生育,不是因为我们担心人口爆炸,也不是因为我们觉得我们养不起孩子,而是因为我们不喜欢孩子。
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
我很快就相信了……所有的理论都是空洞的大脑活动,因此如果不先弄清楚宇宙到底由什么组成,那就是在浪费时间。
Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
对不同时期所作的陈述进行比较,常常使我们能够对文化因素的出现给出最大和最小的日期,或为人口的流动确定时间限制。
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
如果人口增长、工业化以及我们排放到大气中的所有物质没有改变气候平衡,我绝对会大吃一惊。当然有。否认是没有正当理由的。
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
我们在丹麦曾有两次这样的写信运动,当时有四分之一以上的成年丹麦人参加。然而,这样的成就需要付出巨大的努力和大量的金钱。
A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.
一个没有充分利用其女性人口的智力力量的社会不是一个明智的社会。大多数女性不像男性那样被经济运行中的错误所玷污,现在她们应该得到一个机会。
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
正如伟人的影响是无止境的一样,一项伟大的考察也没有确定的终点,没有终点;它持续了几个世纪,一直对日益增长的人口和日益扩大的领域日益增长的需求的压力作出反应。
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
结果,遗传学家将进化简单地描述为种群中基因频率的变化,完全忽略了进化由两种同时存在但又截然不同的适应和多样化现象组成的事实。
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Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.
世界上有一半人口死于贫困和饥饿,而你仍然认为自己不够富有。
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
我所声称的是,当一个剧烈的变化发生时,它发生在一个相对较小和孤立的群体中。
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
但随着人口密度的增加,自然的化学和生物循环过程变得超负荷,需要重新定义产权。
Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.
我们的人口正走向稳定的高原,这意味着人口老龄化。
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
在所有孵化表现完全完成之前,不要计算家禽总数。
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
很明显,科学和科幻小说有重叠的人群。