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The myxobacteria have a life cycle that is dominated by social behavior. During vegetative growth, cells prey on other bacteria in large groups by gliding motility. When faced with starvation, cells form a macroscopic fruiting body containing thousands of resting myxospores.

粘细菌运动、发育相关基因的克隆及分析粘细菌以具有复杂的多细胞社会学行为著称，它们能够在营养丰富的条件下在固体表面上滑行运动；又能在饥饿的条件下聚集形成子实体结构以及抗逆性的粘孢子。

The largest paintbrush mosaic measures 10m by 2.6m and was achieved by Saimir Strati, who created this mosaic of Michael Jackson using thousands of paintbrushes in Tirana, Albania

Saimir Strati用几千支画笔拼出了世界上最大的画笔马赛克装饰画，这幅画的尺寸为10宽，2.6米高，人物图案为迈克尔·杰克逊。

About the name "spring", there must have been such a story:Before Book of Songs and Book of History, even before word formation, a lamb suddenly felt juicy when cropping grasses; a kid suddenly felt kite's soaring when flying it; a leg, pained from wind stroking all days long, suddenly felt stretched; thousands of snow-white hands suddenly felt spirituality of water when washing by brook, pond and river... All of them started running to tell each other surprisingly, when they decided to name the season by putting their mouths into a shape as if they were whistling and with a pleasant whispery voice, as "Spring".

关于春天的名字，必然曾经有这样的一段故事：在《诗经》之前，在《尚书》之前，在仓颉造字之前，一只小羊在啮草时猛然感到的多汁，一个小孩在放风筝时猛然感到的飞腾，一只患风痛的腿在猛然间感到的舒活，千千万万双素手，在溪畔，在塘畔，在江畔浣纱的手所猛然感到的水的血脉……当他们惊讶地奔走互告的时候，他们决定将嘴噘成吹口哨的形状，用一种愉快的耳语的声量来为这季节命名：&春&。

The building is still on fire even though it's been dowsed by thousands of gallons of water by helicopter.

尽管直升机灭火队已向厂房浇了几千加仑的水但火仍未扑灭。

Herman then explains how the CIA finessed terrorism by referring to "Patterns of International Terrorism" defining it as follows:"Terrorism conducted with the support of a foreign government or organization and/or directed against foreign nationals, institutions, or governments." By this definition, internal death squads killing thousands are excluded because they're not "international" unless a foreign government supports them.

赫尔曼则解释了如何中央情报局finessed恐怖主义，是指&模式的国际恐怖主义&的界定如下：&恐怖主义的支持下，与外国政府或组织和/或针对外国国民，机构，或政府，&通过这顾名思义，内部行刑队杀害数千名被排除，因为他们没有&国际&除非外国政府支持他们。

Some of his criticisms concentrated on the well-known monastic enclosure, seen every year by tens of thousands of visitors who are ferried out by local boatmen and must then climb more than 600 steps.

他的部分批评集中在著名的&修道院生活区&。这个景点每年都会吸引成千上万的游客前来参观——先乘当地的渔船，上了岸还要再登600级台阶。

Some of his criticisms concentrated on the well-known monastic enclosure seen every year by tens of thousands of visitors who are ferried out by local boatmen and must then climb more than 600 steps.

他的部分批评集中在闻名的&修道院生活区&，每年有上万人坐着当地渔民的船——还要再登600级台阶才能——到那里参观。

Some of his criticisms concentrated on the well-known monastic enclosure, seen every year by tens of thousands of visitors who are ferried out by local boatmen and must then climb more than 600 steps.

他的部分批评集中在著名的&修道院生活区&，每年有上万人坐着当地渔民的船——还要再登600级台阶才能——到那里参观。

Devoted birdwatchers, those prepared to travel thousands of miles for a sighting of a rare Siberian bird, are fast joined by a new breed of follower whose interest is satiated by watching a few finches on a Sunday walk or putting up a bird-box in the back garden.

这一段里，作者把精英分子和普通爱好者进行了比较。那些铁杆的爱好者是那些乐意在全天候的情况下，等上很长时间，只为了饱一下眼福的那类。

Devoted birdwatchers, those prepared to travel thousands of miles for a sighting of a rare Siberian bird, are fast being joined by a new breed of follower whose interest is satiated by watching a few finches on a Sunday walk or putting up a bird-box in the back garden.

那些热心的鸟类观察者们，随时可以出发去几千英里之外，就为看一眼某种罕见的西伯利亚鸟，现在又有一批新的追随者加入进来：这些人只要通过周日散步途中观赏几只雀科鸣鸟、或是在后院支上一个鸟箱，他们的兴趣就能得到满足。

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。