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In 2001, William Hoch, now at Montana State University, Bozeman, suggested that the pigment acts as a protective sunscreen, helping to keep leaves on the trees for longer so that more nutrients can be harvested from them.

美国蒙大拿州立大学的植物生理学家William Hoch在2001年就曾提出，色素相当于树木的防晒霜，让叶子在树上停留的时间更长一些，这样树木就能从叶子中获取更多的营养。

Killing that second inmate is the homicidal equivalent of blood in the urine.

杀第二个狱友相当于谋杀案中的尿里有血

Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teacher meeting with Karl.

最后他甚至上了HONOR ROLL的名单(HONOR ROLL是美国学生的一种荣誉，相当于三好学生什么的)在他上学的第四年，我和他一起参加了一次家长会。

Now they have something else in common: this week both announced a further round of mass lay-offs. On November 17th Vikram Pandit, Citi's boss, said his bank would shed a whopping 52,000 jobs in the next few months, bringing the total number of planned job cuts to 75,000, or 20% of the bank's workforce. On November 18th Chip Hornsby, Wolseley's boss, announced another 2,300 job cuts at his firm.

现在他们在某事上有共同之处了：本周这两家公司都宣布了新一轮的大规模裁员。11月17日，花旗的老总Vikram Pandit表示在接下来的几个月中他们将裁剪52，000个职位；这一举措将计划裁员数增加到了75，000个，相当于整个银行职工总数的20％。11月18日，沃尔斯利的老板Chip Hornsby又宣布了另外2300个职位裁减的决定。

Because his engine did ten times as much work as the hors...

因为他的机器输出的功率相当于马的十倍，瓦特就命名它为。

The entire shoot apex of a horsetail could fit into the large apical cell in the growing tip of a fern.

木贼的整个茎尖可相当于蕨类生长锥中大的顶端细胞。

At this level it was worth only 36% of average hourly earnings for all employees.

这一水平仅相当于所有雇员平均每小时工资的 36%。

How's everything going?Howdy!What's up?

几句话都相当于"你怎么样？"

Howdy! What's up?

几句话都相当于你怎么样？

First thing we need to do is create our form, this could be compared to writing a tag in HTML.

首先要做的是建立表单，这个相当于在 HTML 中写一个标签。

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。