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"Tagua" palm trees grow mainly in tropical areas in South America. They grow very slowly and take about 15 years to bear their fibrous fruit and another 3 8 years for the fruit to become ripe. The locals collect these fruit to dry in the sun. After a few months, when the fruit are completely dry, they become a white, tough, ivory-like mass. This material can be used in making buttons, ornaments, chessman, musical instruments…etc. Therefore the fruit is also known as "Ivory Nut".

集中在南美热带生长的「Tagua」椰子树，生长速度非常慢，需时15年才会结出纤维质的果实，再等3-8年果实成熟，当地人就会收集起来晾晒，待数月后果实完全烘乾，变成媲美象牙的白色坚硬物质，可制作钮扣、饰品、棋子、乐器等，因而亦有「象牙果」之称。

Rock used to be a night bird but since he married a year ago,he has become a family man.

罗基以前是个夜猫子，但自从一年前他结婚后，就变成住家男人

It is linguistically illogical, but English has now become the Rosetta Stone of science, the language used to translate the science of the world into communication for the whole world.

这在语言雪上是没道理的，英语如今成为了Rosetta Stone的语言，是用来将科学世界翻译给大众世界的语言。

I used to think I knew how some caterpillars become butterflies.

过去我认为自己知道毛虫是如何变成蝴蝶的。

Independent-samples t-test is used to compare means of the experimental and control groups.The statistical results reveal that collocational competence with the sub-technical terms of the experimental group is significantly higher than that of the control group. However, the CBSTT model's effect on the simple nominal phrase collocational competence is more significant than the effect on the complex nominal phrase collocational competence. From the perspective of production competence, the overall results of the experimental groups are significantly higher than the overall results of the control group. The complex nominal phrase production competence is not significantly developed at the beginning of the experiment. With the progress of the experiment, the differences from the two groups become salient.

在短语搭配能力方面，实验组学生的总成绩明显高于对照组学生，其中实验组简单短语的搭配组合能力与对照组学生存在显著差异，但复杂短语的组合能力上两组差异不大；在产出能力方面，实验组学生的总成绩也明显高于对照组学生，实验组简单短语的产出能力与对照组学生存在显著差异，复杂短语的产出能力开始没有显著差异，随着实验的进行差异越来越显著；在通过词汇重复手段以构成语篇衔接方面，实验组学生的成绩和对照组的学生无显著差异。

Smokers used to be the center of the party, but now they've become wallflowers, says Dr. Nicholas Chrstakis.

Nicholas Chrstakis医生说，&吸烟者曾经是聚会的中心人物，但现在却成了边缘人。&

When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates , acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury , they did not, on that account , become inactive.

当习惯于吃几个枣充饥的阿拉伯人获得东罗马帝国的财富，居住在几乎令人难以置信的豪华宫殿中时，他们并未因此就闲居不动了。

Human beings, for the most not part are not like this. When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury, they did not, on that account, become inactive.

习惯于吃几个枣充饥的阿拉伯人没有因为获得了东罗马帝国的财富，稍一点头，希腊奴隶就会为他们端上最精美的食物，然而是其他欲望使他们行动起来，尤其是以下四种。

When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury, they did not, on that account, become inactive.

当惯于靠吃几个椰枣节俭为生的阿拉伯人获得东罗马帝国的财富，居住在几乎令人难以置信的豪华宫殿中时，他们并未因此就闲居不动了。

When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates , acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury , they did not, on that account , become inactive.

阿拉伯人曾习惯于靠吃几个枣子节俭度日，当他们获得东罗马帝国的财富，居住在几乎令人难以置信的豪华宫殿中时，他们并未因此就闲居不动了。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。