The nineteenth century saw considerable interest in the nature of genius, and produced not a few studies of famous prodigies.
十九世纪，人们对天才的本质产生了浓厚的兴趣，对著名的天才进行了不少研究。
Now, the crowd outside his church includes teenage couples and not a few miniskirts.
现在，他教堂外边的人群包括青少年夫妻，不少人穿迷你短裙。
Quickly extend to the Toyota, have already caused not a few misgivings in the industry.
对于丰田的快速扩张，在业内早已引起了不少担忧。
Yet it is always society as a whole that defines us and our attitudes, not a few individuals.
但总是整个社会，而不是少数几个个人在制约着我们及我们的态度。
Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
所以他们中间多有相信的。又有希腊尊贵的妇女，男子也不少。
In Houston, not a few families were throwing extravagant post-debutante parties for their daughters.
在休斯顿，初次社交舞会后，很多家庭都在为他们的女儿们举办奢华的的舞会。
There are not a few who suspect that even Obama's America will be preoccupied with a checklist of more urgent concerns.
还有不少人怀疑，就算是奥巴马带领的美国也有很多更要紧的事情需要处理。
Roadside Napian white orchids bloom several gone. Originally not a well-known flowers, and perhaps thank them go, not a few people care about.
路边那片开得雪白的兰花儿没了。原本不是什么有名的花儿，或许它们的谢去，并无几人在意。
The key to Metcalfe's law is the knee in its curve, the point at which there are enough users so that each new node adds not a few but a few million new connections.
梅特卡夫定律的关键在于曲线的拐点，在拐点上用户数目已经多到每增加一个新节点将产生不是几个而是几百万个新连接。
We do not even know yet exactly who or what is the main villain of the story (it is definitely not a few individuals in the power center: they too are victims of something larger, just as we are).
我们甚至还不知道到底谁或者什么是故事里的大反派(绝对不是在权力中心的那几个人：他们和我们一样，也是更大的什么东西的牺牲品)。
Oxen were not used at all but donkeys were used by a few households in the northern part of the district.
"这个地区的人们完全不会使用牛，但北部的一些住户会使用驴。
The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.
研究人员还承认，在一些领域中，作为一个概念，种族可能在科学研究中仍然有用：作为一个政治和社会变量，而不是生物学变量。
The next few weeks will be a period of readjustment, and will probably not be easy.
接下来的几周是重新适应的时期，很可能不会容易。
I'm taking a few clothes and some books, not much else.
我带了几件衣服和一些书，别的就不多了。
As well as the goals and projects which we love, most of us have a few commitments that we're not so keen on.
除了我们喜欢的目标和项目，我们大多数人都有一些我们不太热衷做的事。
Since the divers limit their catch to a few individuals and take care not to overfish, the divers' continuing activities will clearly not result in serious harm to populations of princessfish.
由于只有少数几个潜水员进行捕捞，而且他们会注意不造成过度捕捞的现象，所以潜水员的持续活动显然不会对公主鱼种群造成严重危害。
In countries like the USA, it is not strange for people to drive a few hundred yards to their local groceries.
在美国这样的国家，人们开车几百码去当地的杂货店并不奇怪。
Just a few species of plants grow there because the temperature is very cold, and there's not much precipitation.
那里只有几种植物生长，因为温度很低，没有太多的降水。
But it's not a race, it's really just for fun and the best thing would be to take it easy the first few times you do it and then see if you can gradually improve your time.
但这不是一场比赛，真的只是为了好玩，最好是在刚开始的几次比赛中放松一些，然后看看你是否能在时间上逐渐提升。
My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving.
我对海关例行公事的不耐烦暗示着，几小时前我还不知道存在的克洛艾，已经产生了渴望的状态。
It's not a remnant of some huge population that is dwindled in the last few hundred years for some reason.
它并不是由于某种原因而在过去几百年里减少的庞大人口的残余。
The United Kingdom is one of the few countries in the world that does not have a large wild animal that eats meat.
英国是世界上少数几个没有大型食肉野生动物的国家之一。
Of course, it is not like you can take an unemployed waiter and train him to be a doctor in a few weeks, no matter who pays for it.
当然，不管谁出钱，你也不可能在短短几周内把一个失业的服务员训练成专业医生。
The last few years have taken a toll not only on his family's finances, but also on his feelings of self worth.
过去的几年不仅给他的家庭带来了经济上的损失，也给他的自我价值感带来了负面影响。
Not a day goes by that I don't ask myself why there are so few women economists on the free market side.
我每天都在问自己，为什么自由市场领域的女性经济学家如此之少。
The nets captured a few more trout than they would have without the flood but did not show substantial flushing of native fish, whose ancestors had, after all, survived many larger natural floods.
与没有洪水时相比，渔网捕获了更多的鳟鱼，但并没有显示本地鱼类的大量泛滥，毕竟它们的祖先在许多更大的自然洪水中幸存了下来。
Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.
仅仅数月后，莉娅开了她的第一家瑜伽馆，但成功不是一蹴而就的。
The number of extant manuscripts, however few, really does not allow scholars to infer how many ancient Latin manuscripts of a work survived to the ninth, the twelfth, or even the fifteenth century.
现存的手稿，不论数量多么少，也不能让学者推断一部作品的古代拉丁手稿有多少存活到了九、十二，甚至是十五世纪。
The number of extant manuscripts, however few, really does not allow scholars to infer how many ancient Latin manuscripts of a work survived to the ninth, the twelfth, or even the fifteenth century.
现存的手稿，不论数量多么少，也不能让学者推断一部作品的古代拉丁手稿有多少存活到了九、十二，甚至是十五世纪。
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