The empirical evidence, such as it is, suggests an altogether different function for yawning—namely, that yawning prepares us for a change in activity level.
很多实验证据证实了打哈欠的另一个不同的功能，它能让我们做好准备，改变活动状态。
Our food, such as it is, is plentiful.
我们吃的，虽不很好，却很丰富。
You may use my bike, such as it is.
尽管我的自行车不好，你可以将就着用吧。
Kazakhstan's opposition, such as it is, denounced the initiative.
哈萨克斯坦的反对派(如果要说还有的话)反对这一提议。
You're welcome to join us for supper, such as it is—we're only having soup and bread.
欢迎你和我们一起吃晚饭，只是没什么好吃的——只有汤和面包。
World Bank chief Robert Zoellick made a nod to this accomplishment, such as it is, in his comments Thursday.
世界银行行长罗伯特·佐利克在上周四的点评中也肯定了这一点。
"The literature of aura reading - such as it is - claims that you can train yourself to read auras," says Ward.
“光环阅读的文学作品-就像这个一样-宣称你能训练自己去阅读光环，”沃德说。
In spite of the abundance of information, or maybe because of it, the West has difficulties in understanding reality such as it is.
尽管有着充足的信息(又或许正是因为这样)，西方世界很难正确地理解现实。
This will always be a problem such as it is now where you are in a period of transformation, yet the lower vibrations remain around you.
这一直是一个问题，例如现在你们正处于的一个转变的时期，低振动仍然留在你们周围。
I beg you would do me the honour to sup with me, though my entertainment may not be worthy your acceptance; such as it is, I heartily offer it.
我希望你能让我有这个荣幸和你一起吃晚餐，虽然我的款待可能不值得你接受；就算是这样，也是我精心准备的。
"A word is a shadow, "said the shadow, and as such it must speak.
“一个字就是一个影子。”影子说，是因为它必须这样说。
It is feared that a failure to address early-year challenges, such as poor handwriting, leads to much more serious problems down the line with these pupils facing reduced career prospects.
人们担心，如果不解决小时候面临的挑战，如书写糟糕，将会导致更严重的问题，这些学生面临的就业前景会更严峻。
A brave lodging for such as we, is it not so?
对我们这样的人来说，这不是一个华丽的住处吗？
Often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions and pumping it to nearby cropland.
在干旱的热带地区，提供灌溉水的最低成本的方法通常是建造小规模的工程。例如，在洼地收集雨水，然后将其抽调至附近的农田。
The new job is not a promotion as such, but it has good prospects.
担任这一新的职务算不上是真正的提职，不过有美好的前途。
It is simple pleasures, such as a walk on a sunny day, which have a cumulative effect on our mood.
诸如在晴朗的日子散步这样简朴的乐趣对我们的情绪有累积性益处。
It is impolite to ask about such private questions as other's age in western countries.
在西方国家，打听私人问题如别人的年龄是不礼貌的。
Another shortcoming is that it is not applicable to certain very muscular people such as athletes and bodybuilders, who can also have artificially high BMIs.
另一个缺点是它不适用于一些像运动员和健美运动员这样的肌肉发达的人，他们也可以有人为造成的身体质量指数偏高的情况。
It is important to note that other factors, such as volcanic particulates or variations in the amount of sunlight received by the Earth, could potentially have affected the climate.
必须指出的是，其他因素，如火山微粒或地球接收到的阳光量的变化，可能已经潜在地影响了气候。
However, it is very hard to demonstrate causes using non-experimental data such as this.
然而，使用诸如此类的非实验数据来证明原因是非常困难的。
If big sums are to be spent on cleaning up environmental disasters, it is better to spend them on unglamorous but pressing problems such as unsanitary water in Third World countries.
如果要把大笔资金花在清理环境灾难上，那么最好把钱花在那些乏味但紧迫的问题上，比如处理第三世界国家不卫生的水的问题上。
There is such a storm, it looks as if the world were coming to an end.
有一场大风暴，看起来就好像世界末日到了。
This last theory is attractive because it gives some hope of explaining the enclosed seas, such as the Sea of Japan.
最后一种理论很有吸引力，因为它给解释封闭海域（如日本海）带来了一些希望。
It is helpful to use well-known ideas such as an ambulance siren or a gunshot because these sounds carry a lot of context with them.
使用诸如救护车汽笛或枪身之类众所周知的音效是有帮助的，因为这些声音本身蕴含了环境信息。
As much as we might wish it, there is no painless recovery after such a long bout of overleveraging.
正如我们可能希望的那样，在经历如此漫长的一轮高杠杆化之后，不会有无痛的复苏。
It is very hard to demonstrate causes using non-experimental data such as this.
很难用这样的非实验数据来论证原因。
As it happens, there is one place where there may be such evidence: Cuddle Springs in New South Wales.
碰巧，有一个地方可能有这样的证据：新南威尔士州的拥抱泉。
It is nearly identical to our own planet and bulk properties such as mass, density, and size.
它几乎与我们自己的行星和体积属性相同，包括质量、密度和大小。
It is true that when there are start-up costs, such as credit checks, involved in serving a new customer, the costs exceed those of serving a repeat customer.
的确，当服务新客户需要启动成本时，比如信用检查，其成本要高于服务老客户的成本。
It is true that when there are start-up costs, such as credit checks, involved in serving a new customer, the costs exceed those of serving a repeat customer.
的确，当服务新客户需要启动成本时，比如信用检查，其成本要高于服务老客户的成本。
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