In the 1900s, researchers started honing in on the concept of hormones.

二十世纪，研究人员开始推敲荷尔蒙的概念。

He was impelled to do them, and did not reason about them at all.

为什么非做不可, 也没有心思去推敲。

There is no hope that has been widely persuasive and stood up to skeptical examination.

还没有广泛为人所接受、经得起推敲的希望。

We must keep honing and refining until we find that noun, verb or adjective.

我们必须不断地推敲，直到找到个词为止。

That plaque hypothesis is still out there—although it's repeatedly failed to stand up to scrutiny.

尽管斑块假说屡屡经不起推敲，但种说法仍然存在。

As I'd feared, she had missed the carefully honed, double-edged irony of the question.

正如我担心的那样，她没有仔细推敲句话的含义。

And since the cuts have barely bitten yet, that explanation doesn't wash.

既然财政削减几乎尚未造成不良后果，个解释也就经不起推敲了。

In fact, none of the proposed scientific explanations have held up to scrutiny.

事实上，所有提出的科解释都经不起推敲。

Even the best cover just goes so deep.

再好的伪装也禁不起推敲。

But what's there tells a story if you read between the lines.

但还是有迹可循的只要字里行间细细推敲。

Quickly, without as much attention to detail as you would like to take or as you could take.

里指快速地、不加推敲细节地写。

He tried to see if the answers could stand up to scrutiny, and he often found that they didn't.

他试图看看答案是否经得起推敲，但他经常发现答案是否定的。

And perpetual bluntness is draining; humans constantly finesse and massage the messages they send in order to avoid open conflict.

并且总是直率会令人精疲力竭；为了避免公开的冲突，人类不断地巧妙处理推敲他们传递的信息。

Ms. Nauert noted that a number of Mr. Taheri's followers have reportedly also been arrested recently on similar objectionable charges.

诺尔特强调，据报道，塔赫里的许多追随者也于近期受到逮捕，罪名与塔赫里如出一辙，经不起推敲。

Above were the search laboratories and the padded rooms in which Sound-Track Writers and Synthetic Composers did the delicate work.

再往上是研究实验室和铺设软地毯的房间——是供录音带写作作家和合成音乐作曲家精心推敲的地方。

Not one stereotype about older workers holds up under scrutiny.

没有一个关于老年工人的刻板印象经得起推敲。

Ultimately that claim did not hold up to scrutiny.

- 最终， 种说法经不起推敲。

Not all of the World Bank's prescriptions stand up to scrutiny.

世界银行提出的所有建议并非都经得起推敲。

Among the studies that did not hold up was one that claimed a link between a stomach bacteria and colon cancer.

在那些经不起推敲的研究中，有一项声称一种胃里的细菌与结肠癌之间存在联系。

" If he's paralyzed from the neck down, he can't go to the prom, either, " I muttered, refining my plan.

“要是他从脖子以下高位截瘫，他同样也没法去参加正式舞会了。”我喃喃低语着，推敲着我的计划。