Today the main economic activities of the family are in the nature of consumption-however productive may be what some of its members do in society.
今天，家庭的主要经济活动是消费性的，尽管家庭中有些成员在社会上所干的可能是生产性的。
In a 1757 essay, the philosopher David Hume argued that because "the general principles of taste are uniform in human nature", the value of some works of art might be essentially permanent.
哲学家大卫·休谟在1757年的一篇文章中谈到，因为人类的审美具有共同性，所以一些艺术作品的价值可能是永恒的。
At the University of Sussex, you are introduced to the nature and grammar of English in all its aspects.
在苏塞克斯大学，你会接触到英语的本质和语法的各个方面。
Farmers in South Africa are more at the mercy of nature, especially inconsistent rainfall.
南非的农民更容易受到大自然的影响，尤其是变化无常的降雨。
Nature is indeed like a riddle, some areas of which are beyond the reach of science and technology, at least in the foreseeable future.
大自然确实像一个谜，其中一些领域是科学技术无法触及的，至少在可预见的未来是这样。
Hills and mountains are often regarded as the epitome of permanence, successfully resisting the destructive forces of nature, but in fact they tend to be relatively short-lived in geological terms.
丘陵和山脉通常被认为是永恒的象征，成功抵御着自然的破坏力量，但其实它们从地质学角度讲往往是相对短暂的。
I think that the kinds of things that women are exposed to tend to be in more of a chronic or repeated nature.
我认为女性接触的这些不同的事物往往是慢性的或反复的。
Many species are similar enough that hybrid offspring are possible and may often occur in nature, but for the majority of species, this rule generally holds.
许多物种非常相似，因此有可能杂交繁衍出后代，而且这种情况可能经常在自然界中发生；但对于大多数物种来说，这一规则大体适用。
Why people are so excited about embryonic stem cells is because in nature they become all the cells of the body.
胚胎干细胞如此让人激动是因为它的天然功能就是分化成身体所有的细胞。
Most recognizable of the ship designs are the ship's smoke stacks, but the fourth stack was actually just artistic in nature and served no functional purpose.
烟囱是船舶最容易辨认的设计，但其实，第四个烟囱只有装饰美化作用，并没有任何的实际功能。
Unlike authoritarian management, some cultures, particularly in Asia, are well known for the consultative nature of decision-making—all members of the department or work group are asked to contribute to this process.
与专制管理不同，一些文化，特别是在亚洲，以决策的协商性质而闻名——部门或工作组的所有成员都被要求参与这一过程。
Our doubts and fears are not true in themselves. Our deepest beliefs about ourselves and the nature of our world are not true in themselves, but our thinking makes them true in our experience.
我们怀疑而且担心这不是真的，我们对自己、对这个世界性质的最基本的观念并不是真的，但是我们的思想使它们在我们的经历中成为事实。
The phases of a lifecycle are modular in nature; the execution of each phase provides its own benefits and is not dependent on the execution of the other phases to realize those benefits.
生命周期的各个阶段本质上是模块化的；每个阶段的执行可以提供自己的好处，并且不依赖其他阶段的执行即可实现这些好处。
Equally, they are rather technical in nature and not commonly understood by the business owners of most IT systems.
同样的，它们实际上是技术但是并不总是被大部分IT系统的拥有者所理解。
We show in this section that both terms are ambiguous and not helpful in describing the nature of the service bus or the integration layer.
在本节中，我们要说明这两个术语的含义都很模糊，对于描述服务总线或集成层的性质没有帮助。
Doubts persist on the natural history of the virus and further studies are needed to identify the exact reservoir of the monkeypox virus and how it is maintained in nature.
对该病毒的自然史仍存有疑问，需要进一步继续研究，以确定猴痘病毒的确切贮主，以及该病毒在自然界是如何生存下来的。
Bacteria are among the simplest organisms in nature, but many of them can still talk to each other, using a chemical "language" that is critical to the process of infection.
细菌是自然界中最简单的有机体之一，然而许多细菌还能使用一种在感染过程中起到关键作用的化学“语言”相互交谈。
Additionally, there are inherent problems with the point in time nature of the current interoperability testing.
另外，当前互操作性测试的时间点特性中还存在一些固有问题。
In the case where some of these are standard J2EE in nature and some are special in some sense, then a provider that satisfies both sets of requirements must be provided — adding to the complexity.
对于其中一些具有标准J2EE特征，而一些又有特殊要求的情况，则必须提供同时满足这两组要求的提供程序——而这就增加了复杂性。
According to a study published in the journal Nature, the genes in question are a group of 28 that form part of chromosome 16.
根据一项发表在《自然》杂志的研究，这类“瘦身”基因由人类第16号染色体上的28个基因组成。
The performance statistics are logically interlinked due to the nature of ARM, thus the bottleneck in the SCA invocation can be better detected.
由于ARM的性质，性能统计信息逻辑地相互联系在一起，从而可以更好地检测SCA调用中的瓶颈。
These annotations are in lieu of the XML-based configuration files that typically accompany frameworks of this nature.
这些注解取代了基于XML的配置文件(其他框架一般都有这样的配置文件)。
The findings are described in the June 26 Advance Online issue of Nature Neuroscience.
该项研究结果刊登在6月26日的《自然神经学》的网络版上。
In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world — the very nature of its life.
在当今这种对环境的普遍污染中，化学制品与辐射狼狈为奸，改变着地球的自然状态，也就是改变着地球上生命的自然状态。
The pictures are awful and they are stomach-turning in terms of the level of destruction and the force of nature.
基于毁灭性以及自然破坏程度，这些图片（注：震后图片）让人触目惊心，而且十分的恐怖。
Events such as the financial crisis and climate change are not quirks of the marketplace, or quirks of nature. They are not inevitable events in the up-and-down cycle of human history.
金融危机和气候变化等事件并非市场作乱或大自然播弄的结果，它们并不是人类起伏不定的历史中不可避免的事件。
Yet as scientists begin to climb out of the dark foothills and into the dim light, they are now poised to alter the understanding of human nature in ways artists and writers have not.
然而科学家已经开始爬出黑暗的山脚，走进光明；他们正在改变艺术家和作家从来没有过的对人类本质的认识。
Yet as scientists begin to climb out of the dark foothills and into the dim light, they are now poised to alter the understanding of human nature in ways artists and writers have not.
然而科学家已经开始爬出黑暗的山脚，走进光明；他们正在改变艺术家和作家从来没有过的对人类本质的认识。
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