There are no plans to dig it up right away but scientists hope to run some tests on it in the months ahead to find out what kind of condition it's in.

目前还没有立即挖掘它计划，但科学家们希望在未来几个月对其进行一些测试，以探明它处于何种状态。

Remember we got into this whole discussion of Affirmative Action when we were trying to figure out whether distributive justice should be tied to moral desert or not.

记住，我们之所以讨论平权法案，是因为想要探明分配正义是否应该与道德应得挂钩。

We're trying to find where these critical minerals or rare earths might be.

我们旨在探明关键矿产与稀土元素分布位置。

Those are the facts. But as I've been saying all week, even though America uses around 20% of the world's oil, we only have around 2% of the world's known oil reserves.

这些都是实事。 但就像我这周一直所说，虽然我们石油消费量占到全球20%，但我们石油储量却只有全球已探明储量2%。

Indonesia has the world's largest proven nickel reserves.

印尼拥有世界上最大已探明镍储量。

The first few attempts to locate the ancient baths, however, were unsuccessful.

然而，最初几次探明古代浴池位置尝试都没有成功。

Firstly, through careful study, oceanography helps us to determine where new raw materials for the future may come from, such as where new foods, for example, may be harvested.

首先，通过细致研究，海洋学有助于我们探明未来新原材料潜在来源，例如，可以从何处获取新食物资源。

NASA says there are 10,000 known asteroids that are just as big or bigger that could potentially cause major regional damage if they ever hit the Earth.

NASA表示，上万颗已经探明小行星大小跟它差不多甚至更大，如果撞到地球，这种尺寸足以造成重大区域性破坏。

So then the scientists can find out what makes the dodo a dodo.

于是，科学家们能够探明是什么特质造就了渡渡鸟。

Scientists in the United States say they have solved the riddle of why a large number of precariously balanced rocks located near the San Andreas fault line in California have never been toppled by earthquakes. Johansson Web explains.

美国科学家称已经探明为何加德烈亚斯断层线附近岌岌可危岩石从未因地震而倒塌，约翰逊·韦伯报道。

But that's still sufficient enough to boost Canada's total proven reserves of oil into being the third highest in the entire world, remaining only behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

但这仍然足以让加拿大石油探明总储量跃居世界第三，仅次于沙特阿拉伯和委内瑞拉。

Any member nation can sponsor a contract application , but developing nations are given preferential access to concessions with proven deposits, a practice meant to level the playing field.

任何成员国都可以赞助合同申请，但发展中国家可以优先获得已探明矿藏特许权，这种做法是为了创造公平竞争环境。

She's Katherine. She loves to play games, and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what she's up to before she wants you to know.

她可是凯瑟琳。她爱玩游戏，如果你想在她愿意袒露来意之前探明她打算，那你就是自讨没趣。

The EIA's estimates for shale oil, not included in the 2011 numbers, are a staggering 345 billion barrels, adding a tenth to the world's total oil resources.

同时EIA还估算，除去2011年储量，全球未探明页岩油储量竟然有3450亿桶，占全球石油总资源十分之一。

Looking for clues about the evolution of Mars through its atmosphere, the orbiter will study the planet of atmosphere to try to discover why its climate changed dramatically.

这枚人造卫星将在火星大气层寻找其演化线索，并研究火星大气以探明其气候变化剧烈原因。

And the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement that the cause of the microcephaly outbreak in Brazil had yet to be determined.

世卫组织在一份声明中称尚未探明巴西小头畸形症爆发原因。

As hard as we try, as long and as far as we look, no one's ever spotted an ocean like ours out in space.

尽管我们竭尽全力，就目前状况来说，没人曾像我们在太空一样探明海洋。

Rignot and colleagues used satellite observations, radar and computer models to measure features above the ice to calculate what was going on below.

瑞格诺特和同事们使用卫星观测、雷达和电脑模型来研究冰雪特性，从而探明冰架下情况。

A related research goal is to show how long environmental DNA can last and how far it can travel in different environments.

相关研究一个目标是探明环境DNA可以持续多久，以及在不同环境中能传播多远。

To investigate the matter, The Economist crunched a year's worth of data collected from May 2015 onwards in 15 big cities.

为了探明究竟，《经济学人》杂志用电脑处理了来自15个大城市于2015年5月开始收集、为期一年数据量。