1·There used to be beavers all over the place, something like 200 million beavers, just in the continental United States.
在美国大陆,到处都有海狸,大约有2亿只海狸。
2·When you get a bagel, it used to be you'd get something this size, and now you get something that's really, really much bigger.
当你买百吉饼的时候,过去你会买到这么大的,而现在你买到的真的要大得多。
3·Something in chocolate could be used to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicines.
巧克力中的某些成分可以用来止咳,并产生更有效的药物。
4·He feels it's magical that his vegetable to create something in the place where there used to be nothing.
他觉得他的蔬菜在这个过去什么都没有的地方创造了一些东西,这很神奇。
5·It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.
它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西,而不再是一个负担。
6·But if spin can be proved a universal aspect of black holes, then the rate of spin can be used to infer something very important about a black hole's history.
但是如果旋转可以被证实是黑洞的一个通常的面目,那么,旋转速度就可以用来推断一个黑洞历史上一些重要的事。
7·People of all ages ask me if there is something that can be done for them. They hark back to how things used to be.
各个年龄段的人都问我有什么办法可以有效地帮助他们,并且总是重复说他们原来如何如何。
8·I used to be one of the top editors... now I contribute things here and there where I see something wrong.
我曾经是其中的高级编辑……现在,我也不时地贡献一些东西,在那里发现有些地方出错了。
9·A new regulatory principle in the age of big data, then, might be that people's data cannot be used to discriminate against them on the basis of something that might or might not happen.
在大数据时代,另外一条用于指导规则制定的原则可能是,数据可以用来推断某些事情可能发生或者不可能发生,但这些推断不能被作为歧视的依据。
10·It tastes like something that used to be an egg, but made some really horrible choices.
它尝起来像过去是鸡蛋的东西,但经过一番可怕的加工制成。