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"All of the structures were laid out in a grid pattern, which suggests that the entire community was planned and then built all at once, rather than piecemeal," Pullen said."This would indicate that the settlement was built with some strategic purpose -- perhaps as a military or naval outpost."

"所有的这些建筑都是呈井字形结构分布的，这就说明整个建筑群是先规划好后一次性完工的，而非零星地建造形成，"普伦说，"这也表明这一居住区是出于一定的战略目的而修建的，它有可能是陆军或者海军的前哨。"

Punched tape, punch tapeFeeding of separate sheets of paper rather than roll or fanfolded form.

不是以卷动或折叠方式送纸，而是一张一张分开送纸的输纸方式。

First of all,public policy is purposive,goal-oriented behavior rather than random or chance behavior.

首先，公共政策是有目的性的，是目标导向的行为，而不是一种随机行为。

Pythonic programming style that determines an object's type by inspection of its method or attribute signature rather than by explicit relationship to some type object "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck."

Pythonic编程风格，通过观查一个对象的方法或属性特征，而不是一个对象和某种类型的显式关系来决定一个对象的类型（"如果一个东西像鸭子一样走路，像鸭子一样叫，那么它一定就是鸭子。"）。

In fact you might sense that the whole field of biometrics and ID is rather like medical quackery: as usual, on the one hand we have snake oil salesmen promising the earth, and on the other a bunch of humanities graduates who don't understand technology, science or even human behaviour.

事实上，您可能会感觉到整个领域的生物识别技术和ID是一样，而不是医疗quackery ：一切如常，一方面我们有蛇油推销员有前途的地球，以及对其他一批人文毕业生谁不明白技术，科学，甚至人类的行为。

These are issues of management competence rather than values, Quaker or otherwise.

这些是管理能力问题，而与价值观、贵格会或其它问题无关。

With this information you could call any ship over VHF radiotelephone by name rather than by "ship off my port bow" or some other imprecise means.

获此信息后，你可以要求任何船舶超过甚高频无线电话的名字，而不是由"船过我的港口低头"，或其他一些不精确的手段。

But even to pick it up they would have to ignore a determined campaign of misinformation: polemicists demanding that schools "teach the controversy"; books about " intelligent design " written by "creationist scientists"(a ragbag of nonentities, mostly engineers or chemists rather than biologists); untruths and ad hominem attacks (few "accept that an amoeba can evolve into a human being, even one as flawed as Richard Dawkins," wrote one Christian essayist recently, neatly combining both genres).

但是学习这本书，他们需要摒弃一些误导的观点：善变论者声称学校教授公开辩论；书本是被富有创造力的科学家所写的理解力强的模式（这些都是些无足轻重人所认为的，大多是工程师或者化学家而不是生物学家）；谎言和怀有偏见的攻击（少数认为阿米巴虫能够演化成人类，这是被理查德·道金斯否认的观点之一，这是近代的一个基督教的评论家所写的，结合了两者的风格

" Written by "creationist scientists"(a ragbag of nonentities, mostly engineers or chemists rather than biologists); untruths and ad hominem attacks (few "accept that an amoeba can evolve into a human being, even one as flawed as Richard Dawkins, wrote one Christian essayist recently, neatly combining both genres).

这些都是些无足轻重人所认为的，大多是工程师或者化学家而不是生物学家）；谎言和怀有偏见的攻击（少数认为阿米巴虫能够演化成人类，这是被理查德·道金斯否认的观点之一，这是近代的一个基督教的评论家所写的，结合了两者的风格

We will see a sunny or partly cloudy symbol rather than a rain cloud.

我们将看到大部分的晴天和局部阴天而不是阴雨天气。

By the time of its fall, most of the prisoners were writers who had written against the corruptions of the government.

到它被攻陷的时候，里面多数的犯人是写了反对政府贪污文章的作家。

The most obvious variation to ovum morphological character was that the color was changed from light green to sepiaceous in embryonic development, and all the ovums were almost hatched after 96h.

在胚胎发育过程中卵的形态特征最明显的变化是颜色从淡绿到深褐色，卵在发育96h后卵基本全部孵化。