Why have humans not evolved this variegated gang of anti-cancer proteins, or indeed the different suite of cellular protections enjoyed by blue whales, if they would confer such a clear-cut survival benefit?

如果能够带来如此明确的存益处，为什么人类没有进化出这种五花八门的抗癌蛋白质，还是蓝鲸享有的不同的细胞保护呢？

But it also unwittingly peddled the still pervasive myth that conductors are, in effect, magicians—sorcerers who single-handedly extract waves of finely variegated sound out of thin air.

但它也无意中增加了指挥家的神秘色彩，时至今日人们仍然觉得不可思议，好像他们就是魔术师——独自一人就凭空出测的美妙声音。

In some parts of Scotland, a few poor people make a trade of gathering, along the sea-shore, those little variegated stones commonly known by the name of Scotch pebbles.

苏格兰的某些地区， 一些穷人靠海边收集那些通常被称为苏格兰鹅卵石的杂色小石头为。

The surface can get larger or more variegated.

可能会得更大或更加多样化。

It is doubtful indeed if American industry presents any figure quite as astonishing and variegated as that of John W. Gates, the man who educated farmers all over the world to the use of wire fencing.

确实值得怀疑的是，美国工业界是否有任何像约翰·W·盖茨这样令人震惊和丰富多彩的人物，他教育全世界的农民使用铁丝网。

The play and slight agitation of the water, in its upward gush, wrought magically with these variegated pebbles, and made a continually shifting apparition of quaint figures, vanishing too suddenly to be definable.

水的嬉戏和轻微的搅动，向上涌出的过程中，神奇地与这些杂色的鹅卵石交相辉映，形成了一个不断化的古怪人物影，突然消失得无法辨认。

The rivers and the aerial landscapes, for example, remain invisible, even as their aspect is a thousand times richer and more variegated than the most beautiful terrestrial landscape.

例如，河流和空中景观仍然是看不见的，即使它们的外观比最美丽的陆地景观要丰富和多姿多彩一千倍。

My kids grew up in a totally different environment in New York City, where there's a social environment that is incredibly variegated and rich.

我的孩子们纽约市的一个完全不同的环境中长大，那里的社会环境极其多样且丰富。

The variegated fields are all one color now; the pastures, the stubble, the roads, the sky are the same leaden gray.

杂色的田野现都是一种颜色； 牧场、胡茬、道路、天空都是一样的铅灰色。

Circling around it were clouds of variegated colors.

其周围盘旋着五彩斑斓的云彩。

Who was this man who held in his finger these curiously variegated links of an unknown chain?

这个手指上拿着一条未知链条的这些奇特的杂色链节的人是谁？