The value of knowledge and the return on the public investment in research depends, in part, upon wide distribution and ready access.

在某种程度上来说，知识的价值和公共投资能否取得较高回报，取决于是否能够得到广泛的流通、人们是否能够较容易获取这些研究成果。

It's equivalent to being able to hold a reasonably confident basic conversation.

该水平的英语使用者可以较从容基本对话。

But I'm not in either one now.' He looked at me with more attention.

可是现在我这两都不干。" 他较注意看着我。

It's better that they go quickly and painlessly.

还是让他们不要受到痛苦快快死去较好。

By this time I was beginning to think more clearly.

直到此刻我才开始较冷静思考。

A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.

一项计算机分析无差较妈妈和雏鸟发出的声，并根据相似性对它们排序。

Here, geese can nest on the ground in relative safety.

在这里，雪雁可以较放心把巢筑在上。

And knock wood, the doctors say I'll keep improving slowly but surely.

谢天谢，医生说我一定能恢复，只不过会恢复较慢。

The reality of English or any language is that there are thousands and thousands of words yet, only a percentage of those are used frequently in daily conversation and I'm talking about native English speakers here, not English learners.

英语或者是其他任何一种语言的现实就是它们其中包含着成千上万的单词，只有一部分在日常的对话中会使用较频繁，我说的是英语母语者，不是英语学习者。

Now, we have been sitting out here, relatively patiently...

听我说 我们一直较耐心坐在外面。

The job of the writer is to give them a place to grow (and to transcribe them, of course) . If you can see things this way (or at least try to) , we can work together comfortably.

作家的职责就是给他们提供发展的所在（当然还要把故事写出来）。如果你能像这样看待问题（或者至少尝试这么想），我们就可以较舒服一起工作。

Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in.

他们还不如出生在开阔的牧场上，被狼用乳汁养大，这样他们的眼睛还可能较清楚看到他们是被召唤到什么样的田上来劳作。

You need to write them down so that people can see them clearly and also because in some parts of the world, numbers are described or said in different ways.

你需要写下来，这样人们就能理解较明确，而且在世界其他一些方，数字的读法和写法都不尽相同。

Instead of looking at your score in comparison to the results of other people, the goal of the instrument is to simply offer further information about your own unique personality.

该工具的目标不是将你的分数与其他人的结果较，而是简单提供关于你自己独特个性的一步信息。

Because of Utahraptors's large size and proportion of the leg bones, it's pretty safe to assume that it was slower than what we think of as Velociraptor and Deinonychus.

因为犹他盗龙较大的体型以及腿骨所占的例，可以较确定推测它的速度伶盗龙和恐爪龙要慢一些。

The tendency is going to be to rush through this, but I encourage you to really find it that micro-movement, travel up and down the spine.

我会较快速做一遍，但我鼓励你们真正找到它的微观运动，上下移动脊柱。

Already summer was in the air, the first hint of Georgia summer when the high tide of spring gives way reluctantly before a fiercer heat.

空气里已经有点夏天的感觉，佐治亚初夏的来临，春季的**恋恋不舍让给较炎热的气候。

But some tenacious pathogens, including the ones that cause botulism and tetanus, make it through this caustic cauldron and thrive in the intestines beyond.

但是一些顽固的病原体，包括一些导致肉毒中毒和破伤风的病原体能较好避开腐蚀性环境，在肠道之外存活繁衍。

Such alterations let the body fine-tune its response to the environment, and modern gene-sequencing techniques can detect them without too much difficulty.

这些修改使得身体微调其对环境的反应，而现代的基因测序技术能够较轻松检测到。

Peter now seemed to be able to make some use of his shield, and he certainly made good use of his feet.

现在彼得似乎能够较灵活使用盾牌，脚步显然也灵活多。