Understand the origins and ubiquity of life.

了解生命的起源及普遍性。

Surveys indicate the alarming prevalence of these feelings.

调查显示，这些情绪的普遍性令人担忧，甚至可以说几乎普遍存在。

It's intriguing to think that this hypothesis might have greater generality beyond hermit crabs.

“这假说的适用范围可能更具普遍性，远远不只寄居蟹，这相当有趣。”

Whether this is proof of universality is a matter of opinion.

这是否证明普遍性是意见问题。

So I do think it's a relevant theme, it's a universal theme.

所以我并不认为这是相关性的主题，而是普遍性的主题。

This is a graph of autism prevalence estimates rising over time.

这是显示自闭症患者数量 普遍性上升的表。

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits (particularly in word order) shared by many languages, which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

第二次努力——由乔舒亚·格林伯格做出——采用更为经验主义的方法来研究语言的普遍性，确定了多种语言（尤其在语法词序方面）的共有特征，这些特征被认为是代表了由认知局限产生的倾向。

But massive missteps like these are now the exception rather than the rule.

然而这种弥天大错仅仅是例外，并不具有普遍性。

Its ubiquity suggests that gossip must have some benefits.

八卦的普遍性表明，八卦肯定有些好处。

Some of the relations he found were commonsensical.

雅科尼发现的些关联具有普遍性。

They're general tips; they're not about the specific sections.

这些是普遍性技巧，并不针对特定领域。

We can't avoid this conversation. This issue transcends all of us.

这些问题是具有普遍性的，而且我们社会应有的变化也迟迟没有实现。

Tattooed mummies from around the world attest to the universality of body modification across the millennia, and to the fact that you really were stuck with it forever if your civilization never got around to inventing laser removal.

世界各地发现的有纹身的木乃伊证明了数千年来纹身现象的普遍性，这也使人们认识到，如果你所处的文明尚未发明激光移除术，纹身会直留在你身上。

We know that many of the people who argue that change is not possible are making the error of the average, looking at the average score as opposed to outlayers, as opposed to people who have introduced change.

我们知道很多人争辩说改变是不可能的，他们犯了普遍性的错误，只看平均分而不看例外情况，不看那些实现改变的人。

But if he could give some general advice, he'd say, the US should increase its funding for basic research, so dedicated scientists like him are more likely to intentionally, or accidentally, stumble upon important discoveries.

但如果他能给出些普遍性建议，他会说，美国应该增加对基础研究的资助，像他这样专注的科学家就更有可能有意或无意地偶然发现重要的知识。

You can generally divide American presidents into two camps.

你可以普遍性地把美国总分为两阵营。

Chomsky's grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it, whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.

乔姆斯基的语法显示出语言变化的模式，这些模式并不受语言谱系或贯穿谱系的路径的影响；而格林伯格式的普遍性则预言了特定的语法词序关系类型之间所存在的紧密互依性。

The clues which he does not look for would lead toward not mere dry generalized facts, but facts that are at the basis of the universe as he knows it.

他没有去寻找的线索，将会把他引领到不止于枯燥的普遍性事实，还有位于他所知宇宙根基的事实。

The facility, where both women had come to have their nostrils swabbed for the virus, is another symptom of a general failure.

这两女人都是在这设施里进行鼻孔病毒擦拭的，这是另外种普遍性失败的征兆。

What Mash and her colleagues wanted to know was how widespread the problem was, and if the chemical often appeared alongside mercury.

马许和她的同事们想知道，如果这种化学物质经常和汞起出现，那这问题的普遍性有多大。