But the wit is not simply about Rube Goldberg-ian chain-reaction gags (though you'll find a few of those).
这种智慧不是RubeGoldberg - ian连锁反应所约束的(尽管你会发现其中的几个)。
So, halting the fire depends mainly on removing either the heat or the fuel, or tinkering with the chain-reaction going on within the flames.
因此，控制森林火的主要办法是降低热量、减少燃料或者是打乱火焰里进行的链反应。
The slump on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.
华尔街股价暴跌在全球股票市场上引起了连锁反应。
Once one person looks at their phone, other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a chain reaction.
一旦有人看了他们的手机，其他人也会觉得有必要这样做，从而引发连锁反应。
You can get atoms to smash atoms and create a chain reaction and create power, that's a pretty amazing invention.
你可以让原子粉碎原子，产生连锁反应，产生能量，那是一个非常惊人的发明。
The process releases a lot of energy and more neutrons, which go on to split other uranium atoms, triggering a chain reaction.
这一过程释放出大量能量和更多的中子，于是继续将别的铀原子一分为二，引发连锁反应。
This CDS chain reaction is one of the major reasons why the Europeans have kept Greece on life support for so long.
这种CDS连锁反应正是欧洲人为何这么长一段时间以来持续向希腊输血的重要原因之一。
Just as in the sun, the chain reaction in the second stage fuses the hydrogen atoms into heavier helium atoms and releases vast amounts of energy in the process.
正如在太阳上所进行的反应一样，第二阶段连锁反应将氢原子聚合成较重的氦原子并在这一过程中释放出巨大的能量。
Even abstruse and highly specialized technologies like polymerase chain reaction have their roots in the existing practices of other genres.
甚至那些十分深奥和专业的技术，如聚合连锁反应，都植根于原有的很多技术实践。
The teenagers who die in knife fights on the streets receive similar eulogies. Is the same chain reaction at work?
而那些因械斗暴尸街头的青年接受了类似的鼓舞，这不是同样的连锁反应在起作用吗？
That programme was about “weaponisation”: the fiddly business of making a device that can set off a chain reaction in nuclear fuel.
该计划致力于武器化：虽然制造在核原料中引发链式反应的设备是一件高精细度的工作。
In the past, when these bubbles burst they often triggered a chain reaction of events that converted the booms into busts.
过去，当这些泡沫破裂时，它们常常会造成连锁反应，把繁荣转变为萧条。
A chain reaction ensues. Before long, every woman has to try harder, and every man can relax a little.
接下来将是连锁反应，不久以后，女人们不得不更加努力，而男人们则可稍加放松。
Current multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques can at most offer detection from among 50 organisms in one test.
现行的多元聚合酶链反应(PCR)技术最多只能在50种生物内进行一次检测。
During a nuclear fission chain reaction, the tubes heat up to extremely high temperatures, and the way to keep them safe turns out to also be the way to extract useful energy from them.
核裂变连锁反应发生时，导管被加热到极其高的温度，将热量安全导出则意味着可以提取裂变产生的可利用能量。
The first volume is tipped over and hits the second book, starting a chain reaction of toppling books, swords, vegetables and other objects arranged in increasingly elaborate configurations.
第一本翻到击中第二本，由此开始了一个连锁反应，书，剑，蔬菜还有其他各种加以精心制作的物体。
Likewise, the geological chain reaction linking earthquakes and volcanoes takes place deep in the ground where it can’t be seen.
然而，联系地震和火山的地理链条反应发生在我们看不见的地底深处。
As a result, the chain reaction will Peter out unless the neutrons can be slowed down sufficiently.
因此，除非这些中子能够被充分减速，否则链式反应会停止。
There is expectation that the European Union could deepen its reductions to 30%, which would set off a chain reaction of increased offers.
人们期望欧盟能够进一步削减排放至30%，因为那将引发抬高报价的连锁反应。
The chain reaction that actually runs the reactor can be shut off in a matter of seconds.
实际运行反应堆的链式反应可以在数秒左右被关闭。
The control rods soak up the neutrons that mediate the chain reaction which produces most of a reactor's energy, shutting it down.
控制棒会吸收路子减慢链式反应，降低核反应的能量释放，进而关掉反应堆。
It is made up of old fuel rods that have become sufficiently depleted of uranium-235, the isotope that drives a reactor’s main chain reaction, to be no longer useful.
乏燃料由完全耗尽铀-235的旧燃料棒组成，核反应堆的链式反应就是由铀-235激发的。
For Greenfield, a conscious experience occurs when a stimulus — either external, like a sensation, or internal, like a thought or a memory — triggers a chain reaction within the brain.
根据Greenfield的观点，当某种刺激——要么来自外部，比如一件耸人听闻的事件，要么来自内部，比如一种想法或者记忆——在大脑中触发了一个连锁反应，意识就产生了。
After Israel developed a nuclear weapons capability in the late 1960s, no regional nuclear chain reaction followed, even though the country is surrounded by rivals.
以色列在20世纪60年代末期提高了核武器研发能力，但并没有在该地区引起核武器开发的链式反应。
9 SEC the control rods, made of boron and silver, are lowered, which slows down the nuclear chain reaction within the core.
9秒由硼和银制成的控制棒被降下，减慢反应堆堆芯内的核链式反应。
Japan itself had a Level 4 accident in 1999, when three workers preparing fuel for a reactor at a Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion plant triggered a nuclear chain reaction, called a criticality.
日本在1999年就曾发生过一次4级核事故（又称“东海村核事故”——译注），当时在日本核燃料转换公司（Japan NuclearFuel Conversion）的一个燃料厂内，三名正在为反应堆准备燃料的工人引发了一次链式核反应，使反应堆达到临界状态。
Even leading high-tech companies----including those whose products started the chain reaction----sometimes find themselves out-paced by entrepreneurs with little more than a good idea.
甚至领头的高科技公司——包括其产品曾引发连锁反应的那些公司——有时都发现他们自己被只有一个好创意的企业所超越。
This can be a chain reaction, with the volunteer team then feeling more empowered to go a step further with its own charity efforts.
这是一系列连锁反应，然后志愿者队伍感觉更有影响力，进一步提高了自己的慈善工作。
Use of most molecular marker systems depends on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which is an important technique for amplifying specific DNA sequences.
大多数分子标记体系的利用都取决于聚合酶链反应（PCR），这是一项扩增特定DNA序列的重要技术。
Use of most molecular marker systems depends on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which is an important technique for amplifying specific DNA sequences.
大多数分子标记体系的利用都取决于聚合酶链反应（PCR），这是一项扩增特定DNA序列的重要技术。
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