考研Companies are unlikely to file many more patents for human DNA molecules - most are already patented or in the public domain.

公司不太可能为人类DNA分子申请更多的专利——大多数已经获得专利或在公共领域。

四级However, we have already reached temperatures that are inlinewith other minimum-ice periods, so continued warming is likely not natural.

然而，我们已经达到了与其他最小冰期相一致的温度，所以持续变暖可能不是自然现象。

六级The good news is that most of this technology is already invented.

好消息是这项技术大部分已经发明出来了。

高考By the time they started secondary school—at age 11—children were already far more aware of their image online and felt under huge pressure to ensure their posts were popular, the report found.

该报告发现，当孩子们11岁开始上中学时，他们已经对自己的网络形象有了更多的了解，并感受到了确保自己的帖子受欢迎的巨大压力。

六级But an array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence here, with an eye not just towards the day those protective treaties expire, but also for the strategic and commercial opportunities that already exist.

但一系列国家正急于在这方面发挥更大的影响力，不仅着眼于这些保护性条约到期的那一天，还着眼于已经存在的战略和商业机会。

六级There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.

有很好的理由解释为什么作物不使用干燥防御系统。

六级This one was chosen because it echoed the labels of groups, such as Italian Americans and Irish Americans, that had already been freed of widespread discrimination.

之所以选择这一条，是因为它呼应了意大利裔美国人和爱尔兰裔美国人等已经摆脱普遍歧视的群体的标签。

四级In fact, I’d like to relive a period I’ve already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

事实上，我想重温我已经生活过的一个时期：20世纪60年代——我20多岁，一切都在更新。

高考However, our fascination with the latest, and our under valuation of what has already become common, can, and has, led us in all sorts of wrong directions.

然而，我们对最新事物的迷恋，以及我们对已经变得普遍的事物的低估，可能并且已经将我们引向了各种错误的方向。

考研Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

自2010年以来，干旱和昆虫已经在加利福尼亚州杀死了1亿多棵树木，其中大部分是在2016年，野火烧毁了数十万英亩。

考研The ruling is a victory for big chains with a presence in many states, since they usually collect sales tax on online purchases already.

这项裁决对于在许多州都有业务的大型连锁店来说是一次胜利，因为它们通常已经对网上购物征收销售税。

六级But the least we should expect is that they do not foster divisions and exclude those who are already disadvantaged.

但我们至少应该期待的是，它们不会助长分裂，也不会排斥那些已经处于不利地位的人。

四级Indeed, we are already hearing from some of them.

事实上，我们已经收到其中一些人的来信。

六级Such prox1fgrams can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.

当然，这样的项目可能会很昂贵，但与已经为那些没有特殊支持几乎没有机会毕业的孩子投资的数百万奖学金和助学金相比，成本很低。

六级Already it is known that bones, muscles and nerves develop faster in baby girls.

众所周知，女婴的骨骼、肌肉和神经发育更快。

四级businesses and governments are already dealing with the impact this increase will have on everything from food and water to infrastructure (基础设施) and jobs.

企业和政府已经在应对这一增长对从食品、水到基础设施的所有方面的影响(基础设施) 还有工作。

六级The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare

这一转变在医疗机构之外几乎没有引起注意，但在医疗机构内部已经引起了争议，这表明医生正在开始重新定义自己的角色，从只关注个别患者到对医疗保健方式施加影响

四级The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington.

隐私问题已经使Facebook在华盛顿陷入困境。

六级Some climate impacts may already be discernible.

一些气候影响可能已经很明显了。

四级There are already too many stores selling alcohol.

已经有太多的商店卖酒了。

高考Larry told her that he had already put out the fire and she should not move in case she injured her neck.

拉里告诉她，他已经把火扑灭了，她不应该动，以免脖子受伤。

四级I have already sweated through numerous in-class midterms and finals, and now I have a professor who issues take-home ones.

我已经在课堂上经历了无数期中考试和期末考试，现在我有了一位教授，他能把这些问题带回家。

高考He was already looking forward to practicing the new music.

他已经期待着练习新音乐了。

四级From this perspective, people are born essentially like undeveloped photographs: The image is already captured, but the way it eventually appears can vary based on the development process.

从这个角度来看，人与生俱来，本质上就像未冲洗的照片：图像已经被拍摄，但最终出现的方式可能会因冲洗过程而有所不同。

四级Mail that was already processed in New Orleans facilities was moved to an upper floor so it would be protected from water damage.

已经在新奥尔良处理过的邮件被移到了一层楼上，这样它就不会受到水的破坏。

考研Politicians have repeatedly “backloaded” public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.

政客们一再“背负”公共部门的薪酬协议，使薪酬增幅保持在适度水平，但增加了假期，特别是已经慷慨的养老金。

六级One impetus for the policy is that companies are already starting to build massive constellations, comprising hundreds or thousands of satellites with many moving parts among them.

该政策的一个推动因素是，各公司已经开始建造大型星座，由数百或数千颗卫星组成，其中有许多运动部件。

考研As it happens, America's armed forces are on the case already.

碰巧的是，美国武装部队已经在调查此案。

高考Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

直到1870年，当它们的数量已经变少时，在辛辛那提附近发现了一只宽1英里、长320英里、长约515公里的羊群。

六级Companies have already won part of the battle, having driven tech into every part of our lives, tracking our steps and our very heartbeats.

公司已经赢得了这场战斗的一部分，将科技带入我们生活的每一个角落，跟踪我们的脚步和心跳。

六级Teachers consider learning two languages to be too43for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations

老师们认为对于贫困家庭的孩子来说，学习两种语言是十分必要的，他们相信孩子们已经背负着家庭的重担。

考研New research on transportation biofuels is already under way.

关于运输生物燃料的新研究已经在进行中。

四级When I asked his opinion on this matter, he responded, ui like in-class exams because the time is already reserved, as opposed to using my free time at home to work on a test.

当我问他对这件事的看法时，他回答说，我喜欢课堂考试，因为时间已经被预留了，而不是利用我在家的空闲时间去做考试。

六级"They're getting nurtured by people they' ve already selected that they trust," she says.

她说：“他们已经选择了他们信任的人来培育他们。”。

考研In other words, if you're going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it.

换句话说，如果你要制作一个印刷品，就要为那些已经痴迷于它的人制作。

六级Students already have laptops and cell phones, of course, but the newest devices can take class distractions to a new level

当然，学生们已经有了笔记本电脑和手机，但最新的设备可以将课堂上的注意力分散到一个新的水平

考研In other words, if you’re going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it.

换句话说，如果你要制作一个印刷品，就要为那些已经痴迷于它的人制作。

六级Their owner is already working on a new idea for a therapy animal-donkeys.

他们的主人已经在研究一种治疗动物驴的新方法。

四级Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.

Goel教授已经有了八名助教，但这还不足以处理学生每天提出的大量问题。

六级The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.

印刷的直接效果是增加了已经流行的手写作品的流通量，而不太流行的作品则停止了流通。

高考If I have a "new idea", I now quickly look to see whether somebody else has already thought of it, or something similar—and I then compare what I think with what others have thought.

如果我有一个“新想法”，我现在会很快地看看别人是否已经想到了它，或者类似的想法，然后将我的想法与别人的想法进行比较。

高考Engineering graduates were more likely to have started their job search already, and to have accepted a job.

工科毕业生更有可能已经开始找工作，并且已经接受了一份工作。

高考Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

在总共6800种语言中，已经有超过400种濒临灭绝，只剩下少数老年人。

六级But consumers' preferences were already shifting toward touch-screen smartphones.

但消费者的偏好已经转向触摸屏智能手机。

高考The professor was delighted to find that two thirds of the project had already been finished by the students independently.

教授很高兴地发现三分之二的项目已经由学生独立完成了。

六级The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

这一转变在医疗机构之外几乎没有引起注意，但在医疗机构内部已经引起了争议，这表明医生正在开始重新定义自己的角色，从只关心个别患者到对医疗费用的使用施加影响。

高考We can observe that artificial intelligence has already made an impact on our lives in many ways.

我们可以观察到，人工智能已经在许多方面对我们的生活产生了影响。

六级People are often hesitant to terminate a project when they've already invested time or resources into it, even if it might make logical sense to do so.

当人们已经投入了时间或资源时，他们往往会犹豫是否终止一个项目，即使这样做可能合乎逻辑。

四级Some robots are already programmed with basic human values.

一些机器人已经被编程设定了基本的人类价值观。

六级Robots already save us time, money and energy.

机器人已经为我们节省了时间、金钱和能源。

六级The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

美国已经失去了欧洲殖民前三分之一以上的本土语言，其余192种被联合国教科文组织归类为不安全语言和灭绝语言。

六级By now everything else is already set

到目前为止，其他一切都已经准备好了

六级Having already enabled a communications revolution, the battery is now poised to transform just about everything else.

电池已经开启了一场通信革命，现在正准备改变其他一切。

六级Researchers have already begun to use smartphones in social scientific research, either to query people regularly as they engage in their normal lives or to record activity using the device's built-in sensors.

研究人员已经开始在社会科学研究中使用智能手机，或者在人们正常生活中定期查询，或者使用智能手机内置的传感器记录活动。

六级By 1500 some 20 million volumes had already been printed.

到1500年，已经印刷了大约2000万册。

六级One of the most effective ways to change an attitude is to start behaving as if you already feel and think the way you'd prefer to.

改变态度最有效的方法之一就是开始表现得好像你已经有了自己喜欢的感觉和想法。

六级Tapping into how we already see ourselves is crucial.

挖掘我们如何看待自己是至关重要的。

六级Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have—but they must also get customers engaged in the process.

公司在创造循环经济中扮演着重要角色，在循环经济中，从提取新资源中产生的价值越来越少，而从更好地利用我们已有的资源中产生的价值越来越多，但他们也必须让客户参与这一过程。

考研Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase "sapere aude" or "dare to know", after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?

在伊曼纽尔·康德（Immanuel Kant）在其论文《什么是启蒙》中使用了拉丁语“sapere aude”或“敢于知道”之后，这种寻求知识和理解我们已经知道的信息的行为被捕捉到了？

考研The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003.

自2003年以来，世界艺术品市场在令人困惑地上涨之后，已经失去了一段时间的势头。

四级In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

事实上，我想重温我已经生活过的一个时期：20世纪60年代——我20多岁，一切都在更新。

四级Some famous companies are already using gamification and more are trying to do the same.

一些著名的公司已经开始使用游戏化，更多的公司也在尝试着这样做。

四级So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project

因此，那些已经具备在工业实验室工作所需技能的大学毕业生在就业市场上的潜力要远远大于那些将全部时间花在一个狭窄的研究项目上的人

考研Politicians have repeatedly "backloaded" public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.

政客们一再“背负”公共部门的薪酬协议，使薪酬增幅保持在适度水平，但增加了假期，特别是已经慷慨的养老金。

六级It simply means there're too many elementary school teachers already.

这仅仅意味着已经有太多的小学教师了。

六级In Aisle 34 is precut plastic flooring, the glue already in place.

在通道34中，预切割塑料地板，胶水已经到位。

六级If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them.

但是，如果员工在评估期之前已经意识到自己的缺陷，他们可能无法或不愿意纠正这些缺陷。

六级We are usually tired already by the time we get on a plane, and the crowded apace and unstable Internet connection make work more challenging.

乘飞机时我们通常已经很累了，拥挤的速度和不稳定的网络连接使工作更具挑战性。

考研In many parts of the world renewable energy is already a principal energy source.

在世界许多地方，可再生能源已经是一种主要能源。

六级Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill (注入) confidence about having children.

美国年轻人已经面临严峻的劳动力市场，无法向他们灌输(注入) 有孩子的信心。

六级Researchers are already asking if motor vehicle use has reached its peak and will decline, but transport planners have yet to catch up with this trend, instead of laying new roads to tackle traffic jams.

研究人员已经在询问机动车使用是否已经达到高峰并将下降，但交通规划者尚未跟上这一趋势，而不是铺设新的道路来解决交通堵塞。

高考Already this year, 115 measles cases have been reported in the USA, compared with 189 for all of last year.

今年，美国已经报告了115例麻疹病例，而去年全年为189例。

六级And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.

我们还需要提前计划，以便我们能够应对气候变化的可能程度，这已经是不可避免的，如果我们不能达成这些全球协议的话，更是如此。

考研With Britain voting to leave the European Union, and GDP already predicted to slow as a result, it is now a timely moment to assess what he was referring to.

随着英国投票退出欧盟，而GDP已经被预测会因此放缓，现在是评估他所指内容的时候了。

六级No need to, says Pipitone, because, in fact, most of us already get enough protein in our diet.

没有必要，皮皮通说，因为事实上，我们大多数人的饮食中已经有足够的蛋白质。

六级In a sense, we are already getting a glimpse of what's to come.

从某种意义上说，我们已经对未来有所了解。

四级It uses the experience of someone who already went through the class to help improve your reading (how much you trust each notation is obviously up to you)

它利用已经上过这门课的人的经验来帮助提高你的阅读能力（你对每种符号的信任程度显然取决于你自己）

高考It had already been placed in a carrier for safety.

为了安全起见，它已经被放置在一个运输工具中。

六级He has already reached the retirement age.

他已经到了退休年龄。

六级This one was chosen because it echoed the labels of groups, such as "Italian Americans" and "Irish Americans," that had already been freed of widespread discrimination.

之所以选择这一条，是因为它呼应了“意大利裔美国人”和“爱尔兰裔美国人”等已经摆脱普遍歧视的群体的标签。

高考If you are already making the time to exercise, it is good indeed! with such busy lives, it can be hard to try and find the time to work out.

如果你已经有时间锻炼，那真的很好！在如此忙碌的生活中，你很难找到时间去锻炼。

四级Already there are many alternative fuel vehicles on the market, powered by anything from solar power to natural gas.

市场上已经有许多替代燃料汽车，从太阳能到天然气，都可以提供动力。

考研Which may be what the Times is doing already.

这可能是《泰晤士报》已经在做的事情。

六级Add a lunch of chicken, rice and broccoli (西兰花), and you are already over the recommended 50 grams.

午餐时加入鸡肉、米饭和花椰菜(西兰花), 你已经超过了推荐的50克。

四级The health secretary said that the government already has plans to attract a more varied workforce into nursing.

卫生部长说，政府已经有计划吸引更多不同的劳动力进入护理行业。

四级Online programs to fight depression are already commercially available.

对抗抑郁症的在线计划已经在市场上销售。

四级He says visitors are already good at keeping things clean.

他说，游客已经很擅长保持东西干净。

四级But if you don't already know how to do something, you will probably make some mistakes and you will make mistakes for a longer time if you have an audience

但是如果你还不知道如何做某事，你可能会犯一些错误，如果你有观众，你会犯更长时间的错误

四级So in the broadest sense, the greenest home is the one that has already been built.

因此，从最广泛的意义上讲，最绿色的家园就是已经建成的家园。

四级Although no form of matter yet discovered moves as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments have already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.

尽管目前还没有发现任何一种物质的运动速度比光速快，但科学实验已经证实，加速运动会延长旅行者的时间。

六级Companies have already won part of the battle, having driven tech into every part of our lives, tracking our steps and our very heartbeats.

公司已经赢得了这场战斗的一部分，将科技带入我们生活的每一个角落，跟踪我们的脚步和心跳。

六级The ubiquitous ( ' , 无所不在的 ) battery has already come a long way, of course.

无处不在的",，无所不在的 ) 当然，电池已经走了很长的路。

六级Surfing the Internet during class doesn't just steal focus from the educator; it also hurts students who're already struggling to grasp the material.

在课堂上上网不仅仅是从教育者那里窃取注意力；这也伤害了已经在努力掌握材料的学生。

六级However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

然而，尽管全世界已有20亿人在饮食中添加昆虫，但消费者的厌恶感在许多西方国家仍然是一大障碍。

六级Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is?

为什么有人会让他们的工作变得比现在更困难？

高考They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.

它们在从教育到医疗保健的各个领域都有潜在的应用，并且已经在这些领域中找到了自己的发展方向。

六级with sufficient will in Downing Street this would have been done already.

如果唐宁街有足够的意愿，这件事早就完成了。

六级Their work is already starting to reveal how the "Obama effect" is changing people's views and behaviour.

他们的工作已经开始揭示“奥巴马效应”是如何改变人们的观点和行为的。

六级Having already enabled a communications revolution, the battery is now poised to transform just about everything else.

电池已经开启了一场通信革命，现在正准备改变其他一切。

六级That issue is already decided

这个问题已经决定了