Comets and asteroids could be the missing links of a long chain.

彗星和小行星可能是长链中缺失的一环。

This may provide the missing link between emotional well-being and physical health.

也许弥补了心理健康与生理健康间缺失的环节。

I only require a few missing links to have an entirely connected case.

我只要再弄清几个环节，全案就可以了然了。

Now, researchers have this missing link in hand to study.

现在，研究人员手上有个缺失的环节可以研究。

Relying on the help of Native American guides, Marsh made some especially significant discoveries, like ancient birds with teeth that are still celebrated as a missing link between dinosaurs and modern birds.

靠着美国原住民向导的协助，马许有一些特别重大的发现，比有牙齿的远古鸟类，个发现至今仍然备受赞誉，因为它为恐龙和现代鸟类间遗失的连结搭起桥梁。

According to four articles published in the journal Nature in late September, Chinese researchers found fish fossils that provide the " missing link" about the origin of the jaw, a key trait that 99.8 percent of vertebrate species have.

根据 9 月下旬发表于《自然》的四篇文章，中国研究人员发现的古鱼化石填补了有颌类起源的 “缺失环节”，地球上现存 99.8% 的脊椎动物都具有颌骨（上颌与下巴）一关键特征。

This line of thinking leads to the idea that in order for us to have broken off from our primate roots, there must have been a middleman, or more appropriately, a missing link.

一思路引出了样一种观点，那就是为了让我们从灵长类动物的根源中分离出来，一定有一个调节点，或者更恰当地说，是一个缺失的环节。

Van Boxsel claims that stupidity is the missing link between our ancestors and us, saying that stupidity once forced the ape to develop its brains.

范博克塞尔声称，愚蠢是我们祖先和我们间缺失的一环，他说愚蠢曾经迫使猿猴发展大脑。

So they need the repatriation of their cultural goods, the repatriation of that missing link to reconnect with their identity and ground themselves.

因此，他们需要通过归还文物，即归还一缺失的联系，从而重新找回自己的身份认同，让自己的内心有所归属。

Webb called intermediate black holes the " missing link" in understanding the range of black holes.

韦伯称中等质量黑洞是理解黑洞范围的“缺失环节”。

Johanson has never doubted her importance. She is our earliest ancestor, the missing link between ape and human, he has said.

约翰森从未怀疑她的重要性。他说：“是我们最早的祖先。猿和人类间的缺环。”

Emi Martinez Looking at Argentina's team now, it seems like Emiliano Martinez was the missing link the whole time.

埃米利亚诺·马丁内斯看看现在的阿根廷队，似乎埃米利亚诺·马丁内斯一直是缺失的一环。

This was the missing link between bony fishes and tetrapods, including human beings, so this was a fantastic expectation.

是硬骨鱼和包括人类在内的四足动物间缺失的一环，所以对我们来说种期待很奇妙。

It asks subjects to provide the missing link among three seemingly unrelated words-say, pine, sauce, and tree.

它要求受试者提供三个看似不相关的单词，例，松树、酱油和树间缺失的链接。

Dubois called it Anthropithecus erectus (later changed for technical reasons to Pithecanthropus erectus) and declared it the missing link between apes and humans.

杜布瓦称他为直立（后来因技术原因改称为直立猿人），并且宣称是联结猿和人类间的缺环。

Well, the search for our missing link still exists, and the search doesn't look like it's going to be that easy.

好吧，我们还在寻找缺失的那一环，而且搜寻工作看起来并不容易。

Like their colleagues, they believed the species represented a missing link between modern domestic horses and their more primitive ancestors.

和他们的同事一样，他们认为该物种代表了现代家马与其更原始的祖先间缺失的一环。

They concluded the species was a sort of missing link between wild asses and modern horses.

他们得出结论，该物种是野驴和现代马间缺失的一环。

“This is the missing link in our understanding of how clusters form.”

“是我们理解集群何形成的缺失环节。”

From a scientific perspective, it's almost like the missing link, you know?

从科学的角度来看，几乎就像是缺失的一环，你知道吗？