Nor did she put the question altogether idly, but, for the moment, with a portion of genuine earnestness ; for, such was pearl s wonderful intelligence, that her mother half doubted whether she were not acquainted with the secret spell of her existence, and might not now reveal herself
她提出這樣一個問題絕不是漫不經心的,就當時而論,她確實帶著幾分誠心誠意因為珠
兒這么鬼精鬼靈的,她母親吃不大準,她未必還不清楚自己的身世之
謎,現在只不過還不打算親口說出來。
Still, what the earliest whales looked like from the neck down was a mystery
但是最初的鯨豚脖子以下究竟長什麼樣
兒,仍然是個
謎。
Mri scanning, developed in this very building ; the contraceptive pill ; modern infertility treatment ; ultrasound scan for unborn babies ; unlocking the double helix structure of dna ; keyhole surgery ; placing fluoride in the water supply ; the portable defibrillator ; the hepatitis b vaccine ; strained quantum - well lasers which contain the information used in cds, dvds and the internet ; dna fingerprinting. a whole speech could be given that amounted to nothing more than a list of examples
正是在牛津這個地方研究和開發出來的核磁共振掃描、避孕藥、現代不孕癥治療術、胎兒超聲波檢查、解開dna雙螺旋結構之謎、鎖孔外科手術、在供水系統中加氟、便攜式心臟除顫器、乙肝疫苗、在cd 、 dvd光盤上存儲信息的應變量子阱激光器、 dna指紋識別技術等。