1·Companies may start to invest in plant and equipment abroad where costs may be lower.
各公司可能要开始在国外投资大型机械设备，那里成本可能低一些。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Plant species dependent solely on seeds for survival or dispersal are obviously more vulnerable to any decrease in plant fecundity that occurs.
显然，仅依靠种子生存或传播的植物物种更容易受到植物繁殖力下降的影响。
3·The resulting adaptations to dry land include some structural features that arose early in plant evolution; now these features are common to virtually all land plant.
由此产生的对干燥陆地的适应包括一些在植物进化早期就出现的结构特征；现在这些特征对于几乎所有陆地植物来说都是很常见的。
4·The reduced level of photosynthesis led to a massive decline in plant life of all kinds, and this caused massive starvation first of herbivores and subsequently of carnivores.
光合作用减弱导致各种植物大规模减少，进而这首先会使大规模的食草动物饿死，随后就是食肉动物。
5·The question of whether the decrease in plant fecundity caused by the spraying of pesticides actually causes a decline in the overall population of flowering plant species still remains unanswered.
喷洒杀虫剂导致的植物繁殖力下降是否真的会导致开花植物物种总数的下降，这个问题仍然没有答案。
6·Ecologists use the term "succession" to refer to the changes that happen in plant communities and ecosystems over time.
生态学家使用“演替”一词来指植物群落和生态系统随时间发生的变化。
7·The flotation samples from the excavations allowed botanists to study shifts in plant-collecting habits as if they were looking through a telescope at a changing landscape.
从挖掘物中获取的浮选样本让植物学家能够研究植物采集习性的转变，就好像是用望远镜观察不断变化的景致。
8·Well, there is no cholesterol in plant foods.
好的，植物食品里没有胆固醇。
9·The details of the greenhouse trial are published in Plant Biotechnology Journal.
温室试验的细节刊登在《植物生物科技杂志》上。
10·They all contain flavonoids, naturalchemicals in plant foods that may have fat-fighting effects.
它们都含有类黄酮，一种天然植物食品中的化学物质，可以消灭脂肪。